Lord of the Flies by William Golding                           				____ / 35 points
TEST: Chapter Nine: “A View to the Death”

Directions: All your answers will be based on the passage below. Please answer the question using complete sentences. The best answers will refer to direct textual evidence.

Reading Closely

“The sticks fell and the mouth of the new circle crunched and screamed. The beast was on its knees in the center, its arms folded over its face. It was crying out against the abominable noise something about a body on the hill. The beast struggled forward, broke the ring and fell over the steep edge of the rock to the sand by the water. At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock; leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore. There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws” (152-153).

1.	What is happening in this passage? Please explain in your own words. Make sure that you are as specific as possible.

Can you find an example of personification? (Hint: remember, personification is when something that is not human is described or depicted as if it is human.)

2.	Copy out the piece of text that is an example of personification.

3.	What is the thing that is being personified?

4.	How has the author made this thing seem human?

5.	Who is the “beast” in this passage?

6.	Why doesn’t the author call the “beast” by his actual name?

7.	Why does the author write that the boys have “teeth and claws?” Humans do not have “claws.”