2014 Mid-Term Examination Study Guide

2. Professor Quirrell’s course

3. Lily Potter

4. Mrs. Figg

5. Nimbus Two thousand

6. Fluffy

7. Nicolas Flamel

8. Professor Dumbledore

1. 
   What did Mr. Dursley do for a living?
   
2. 
   What was the first unusual thing that Mr. Dursley thought he saw as he left for work?
   
3. 
   Why was Albus Dumbledore in the Dursleys’ neighborhood?
   
4. 
   What was the first rule for a quiet life with the Dursleys?
   
5. 
   What are Muggles?
   
6. 
   Why did everyone at the train station stare at and want to meet Harry?
   
7. 
   Why didn’t Ron buy anything to eat on the train?
   
8. 
   What were the four words Professor Dumbledore spoke before the banquet at Hogwarts?
   
9. 
   Who was the Hogwarts caretaker?
   
10. 
    Who gave away the secret of how to get past Fluffy?
    

Part 2 – Lord of the Flies

1. 
   When Ralph is elected chief, Jack is so frustrated that he refuses to hunt.
   
2. 
   Ralph starts the signal fire by rubbing two sticks together.
   
3. 
   The signal fire goes out because Jack and the hunters neglect it.
   
4. 
   A wild boar eats the littlun who has a mulberry-colored birthmark on his face.
   
5. 
   Piggy’s parents will come find them.
   
6. 
   The conch provides a symbol for authority that the boys recognize as civilized.
   
7. 
   The main source of food on the island is food scavenged from the wreckage of the airplane.
   
8. 
   The boys murder Simon because they think that he is “batty.”
   
9. 
   Piggy is not afraid of Jack because he knows that SamnEric will protect him.
   
10. 
    Ralph and Jack initially had a mutual respect for each other that diminished by the end of the book.
    

a. Ralph b. Piggy c. Jack d. Simon e. Roger

1. 
   dies when a rock falls on him
   
2. 
   the elected leader of the group
   
3. 
   the most evil character; kills Piggy
   
4. 
   puts his own lust for hunting ahead of everyone else’s needs
   
5. 
   sees people for what they really are
   
6. 
   represents the power-hungry dictator in society
   
7. 
   represents the mystic philosophers in society
   
8. 
   represents the good-hearted rule-following leaders in society
   
9. 
   represents the evil sadist figures in society
   
10. 
    represents the scholars in a society
    

1. 
   The boys are on the island because
   
2. 
   The boy with the mulberry birthmark who was fearful of the “snake-thing”
   
3. 
   The conch shell becomes a symbol of
   
4. 
   Jack changes from a civilized schoolboy to a(n)
   
5. 
   Which boy suggests, “We’ll have rules! Lots of rules!”?
   
6. 
   Simon recognizes that the beast
   
7. 
   In the early part of the novel, “a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins” prevents
   
8. 
   The bodies of Simon and Piggy are
   
9. 
   The only boy who does not participate in murder is
   
10. 
    Who starts the fire that ironically brings rescue?
    
11. 
    When Robert suggests that the game needs a real pig “because you’ve got to kill him,” what does Jack suggest using?
    
12. 
    Simon’s death represents the death of
    
13. 
    Jack impales the sow’s head on a stick
    
14. 
    While staring at the severed pig’s head, Simon has a mystical experience that reveals to him that the beast is
    
15. 
    Roger is unable to throw rocks directly at the “littlun” on the beach because
    
16. 
    Piggy’s auntie owns a
    
17. 
    What functions does the fire serve?
    
18. 
    Piggy suffers from
    
19. 
    The destruction of the conch symbolizes what?
    
20. 
    The naval officer’s comment about the boys’ fun and games is an example of
    
21. 
    The inhumanity of this fictional society is seen in its treatment of the
    
22. 
    The Lord of the Flies is a symbol of
    
23. 
    For Jack’s tribe, the need for meat becomes secondary to the
    
24. 
    The reenactment of the pig hunt in which Robert is hurt foreshadows
    

1. 
   A parachute drags a body out to sea.
   
2. 
   A small boy with a birthmark goes missing.
   
3. 
   Ralph is elected leader.
   
4. 
   A naval officer rescues a group of children.
   
5. 
   Roger sharpens a stick at both ends for Ralph.
   

1. 
   “Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill.”
   
2. 
   “Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?”
   
3. 
   “Nobody killed, I hope. Any dead bodies?”
   
4. 
   “They’re going to hunt you tomorrow.”
   
5. 
   “I’m not going to play any longer. Not with you.”
   
6. 
   “I should have thought that a pack of British boys…would have been able to put up a better show than that.”
   
7. 
   “You’re acting like a crowd of kids!”
   
8. 
   “What are you doing here all alone? Aren’t you afraid of me?”
   
9. 
   “That’s right! Favor Piggy as you always do!”
   
10. 
    “This head is for the beast. It’s a gift.”
    
11. 
    “Now I only got one eye. Just you wait!”
    
12. 
    “I got you meat!”
    

1. 
   the basic human desire to meet your own needs and also look out for others
   
2. 
   the basic human desire to meet your own needs
   
3. 
   the desire to look out for other people over yourself
   

1. 
   “I’m not going to play any longer. Not with you.”
   
2. 
   “Sam, I’m going to be all right, aren’t I?”
   
3. 
   “You all right, Piggy?”
   
4. 
   “We’ve got to keep the fire going.”
   

1. 
   Adolf Hitler/Stalin/Mussolini
   
2. 
   Albert Einstein/Bill Gates
   
3. 
   Gandhi/ Martin Luther King
   
4. 
   authority
   
5. 
   Nazi soldiers
   

1. 
   rescue
   
2. 
   true sight/power
   
3. 
   authority/government
   
4. 
   savagery
   
5. 
   internal human evil