“Hands up,” said Jack strongly, “whoever wants Ralph not to be chief?” 1 The silence continued, breathless and heavy and full of shame. Slowly the red drained from Jack’s cheeks, then came back with a painful rush. He licked his lips and turned his head at an angle, so that his gaze avoided the embarrassment of linking with another’s eye . . . His voice tailed off. The hands that held the conch shook. He cleared his throat, and spoke loudly.

"All right then."

He laid the conch with great care in the grass at his feet. The humiliating tears were running from the corner of each eye.

"I’m not going to play any longer. Not with you."

Question 1
Part A

What decision does Jack make in the excerpt?

to go off and live by himself

to form a tribe of his own

to accept that Ralph is chief

to demand another vote for chief
Question 2
Part B

How does Jack's decision in Part A change the social structure of the island?

It divides the boys into competing groups.

It forces the boys to live without meat in their diet.

It forces the boys to seek out and befriend the beast.

It prompts Ralph to turn his authority as chief over to Jack.

2 Simon’s head wobbled. His eyes were half closed as though he were imitating the obscene thing on the stick. He knew that one of his times was coming on. The Lord of the Flies was expanding like a balloon.

What is the effect of the phrase "one of his times was coming on" on the meaning of the excerpt?

It hints that Simon is about to be killed by the boys.

It implies that Simon is about to have an epileptic episode.

It emphasizes that Simon has found a way to escape the island.

It refers to the idea that Simon has just had a terrible nightmare.

3Read this excerpt from Chapter 8 of Lord of the Flies, in which Simon first encounters the severed pig's head.

The pile of guts was a black blob of flies that buzzed like a saw. After a while these flies found Simon. Gorged, they alighted by his runnels of sweat and drank. They tickled under his nostrils and played leapfrog on his thighs. They were black and iridescent green and without number; and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned. At last Simon gave up and looked back; saw the white teeth and dim eyes, the blood—and his gaze was held by that ancient, inescapable recognition. In Simon’s right temple, a pulse began to beat on the brain.

What does author William Golding allude to by naming the pig's head the Lord of the Flies?

He references the Bible's Old Testament, which uses that same name for the devil.

He references a 1958 film called The Fly in which a man is physically merged with a fly.

He references a Greek myth in which a being named Myiagros chases away flies.

He references a Greek myth in which two men fly using wings made of wax and feathers.