Lord of the Flies Jeopardy

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Lord of the Flies Jeopardy
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LOTF Jeopardy Categories

• Plot 101 Characters Themes Background Info
• 100 100 100 100
• 200 200 200 200
• 300 300 300 300
• 400 400 400 400
• 500 500 500 500
• BONUS ROUND!!!!

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Plot 101 for 100

• What is the exposition of the story?
• A. The boys ship crashes into an island
• B. The boys plane crashes into an island
• C. The boys are on an island for a field trip
• D. A Naval Officer drops the boys off on the
  island
• AND THE ANSWER IS

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Plot 101 for 100

• What is
• B. The boys plane crashes into an island
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Plot 101 for 200

• What plan of rescue do the boys create to get off
  of the island?
• A. Spell help with conch shells
• B. Place a white t-shirt on top of the mountain
• C. Make many small fires for food/smoke
• D. Make one large signal fire
• And the answer is.

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Plot 101 for 200

• What is
• D. Make one large signal fire
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Plot 101 for 300

• Identify the human deaths on the island by
• Naming each deceased person
• Listing the deaths in the order that they
  occurred and describing how they occurred
• And the answer is

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Plot 101 for 300

• What is
• The littlun with the birthmark (lost in fire)
• Simon (killed by boys during dance at Jacks
  feast)
• Piggy (killed by a bolder thrown by Roger)
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Plot 101 for 400

• How was Simons death foreshadowed?
• And the answer is

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Plot 101 for 400

• What is
• When the Lord of the Flies warns him that he must
  stay away from the other boys or he will be
  doomed
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Plot 101 for 500

• What does Ralph do at the beginning of the novel
  to show his initial disregard for and annoyance
  with Piggy?
• And the answer is

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Plot 101 for 500

• What is
• Tell the boys that his name is Piggy, the one
  name that Piggy asked Ralph (in confidence) not
  to share with the others)
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Characters 101 for 100

• Name the two leaders who are in constant conflict
  throughout the story.
• And the answer is

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Characters 101 for 100

• Who is
• Jack and Ralph
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Characters 101 for 200

• What character begins throwing stones at littluns
  on the beach and eventually throws a bolder at
  Piggy?
• And the answer is

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Characters 101 for 200

• Who is
• Roger
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Characters 101 for 300

• List at least three characteristics to describe
  the main character Piggy
• NOTE Only two of the three characteristics may
  be a physical description!
• And the answer is

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Characters 101 for 300

• What is
• (Possible Answers)
• Fat
• Asthmatic
• Wears glasses
• Annoying/Outcast
• Grown up of the group
• Intelligent one
• Logical one who values order
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Characters 101 for 400

• Simons character is said to be an allegory for
  what human ideal
• A. Virtue
• B. Intelligence
• C. Authority
• D. Innate Evil
• And the answer is

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Characters 101 for 400

• What is
• A. Virtue
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Characters 101 for 500

• Evaluate Jack and Ralphs abilities to be
  effective leaders by stating
• 2 personal qualities Ralph possesses
• 2 personal qualities Jack possesses
• And the answer is

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Characters 101 for 500

• What is
• Ralph (honest, fair, hard working, passive,
  physically strong)
• Jack (evil, sly, aggressive, violent,
  manipulative, physically strong)
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Themes for 100

• According to Golding, humans are which of the
  following?
• A. Innately virtuous
• B. Innately evil
• C. Innately fearful
• D. Innately fearless
• And the answer is

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Themes for 100

• What is
• B. Innately evil
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Themes for 200

• According to Golding, who will people turn to
  when they are threatened or afraid?
• And the answer is

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Themes for 200

• What is
• Not necessarily the best or most rational leader,
  but the strongest leader who shows the most
  strength and offers immediate protection
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Themes for 300

• Why does Golding have Jack and the others paint
  their faces with paint before going off to
  battle? Explain the deeper significance of this
  paint.
• And the answer is

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Themes for 300

• What is
• To relieve themselves of the guilt associated
  with completing taboo acts or acts out of a
  persons typical character (i.e. by painting
  your face YOU are not truly responsible for
  completing the crime that committed with the mask
  on)
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Themes for 400

• As the novel closes, the Naval Officer sees a
  cruiser off in the distance. Explain what
  Golding was trying to symbolically infer by
  having the Naval Officer view this ship as he is
  rescuing the boys.
• 100 point bonus Where else does Golding show
  the same symbolic idea in the novel?
• And the answer is

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Themes for 400

• What is
• That although the grown ups promise rescue/hope
  for the boys (because they live in a world of
  civil order), they too struggle with same violent
  tendencies and innate evil the boys were faced
  with on the island.
• BONUS ANSWER This is also seen when the dead
  paratrooper is sent down as a sign from the land
  of the grown ups.
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Themes for 500

• Golding shows Jacks inclination towards evil by
  having Jack behave differently during pig hunts
  through out the novel. How does Jacks behavior
  change through out the work?
• And the answer is

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Themes for 500

• What is
• Initially, Jack is too afraid to kill a pig when
  he has a chance (he is still governed by
  civilization, order, rules, consequences and
  authority)
• Then, Jack paints his face and is able to kill a
  pig
• (Jack is allowing himself to drift towards his
  true evil desires)
• Jack eventually violently kills a mother sow,
  placing her head on a stick (Jack shows his true
  evil nature as well as his lack of insight in
  killing a sow)
• Jack eventually leads the others in the dance
  during Simons death (Jacks impulsive behavior
  and inclination towards evil allow him to
  discretely take a human life)
• Jack encourages the others to hunt Ralph like a
  pig (Jack consciously encourages the others to
  take another humans life)
• THE BIG PICTURE The longer you are removed from
  order/authority, the more evil you become
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Background Info for 100

• Who wrote The Lord of the Flies?
• And the answer is

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Background Info for 100

• Who is
• William Golding
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Background Info for 300

• Name one reason why William Golding was inspired
  to write Lord of the Flies
• And the answer is

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Background Info for 300

• What is
• He served in the British Royal Navy during WWII
  and was so horrified by the atrocities he saw
  that he felt compelled to write a novel about the
  innate evil of human nature
• He was a teacher for British school boys and saw
  how improper and uncivilized they could truly be
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Background Info for 200

• Goldings novel mirrors and responds to the
  atrocities of what war?
• And the answer is

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Background Info for 200

• What is
• World War II
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Background Info for 500

• What was William Goldings career before he wrote
  the book? How was this career a muse for the
  book?
• And the answer is

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Background Info for 500

• What is
• A school teacher at Wordsworths School for Boys
  in England
• He understood that British school boys are
  believed to be some of the most proper boys in
  the world, but he found that they too, are truly
  evil when given opportunity
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Background Info for 400

• Where did William Golding live?
• And the answer is

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Background Info for 400

• What is
• Cornwall, England
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BONUS ROUND!!!!!

• Where did William Golding attend college and what
  was his major?
• And the answer is

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BONUS ROUND!!!!

• What is
• Oxford University
• Bachelor in English, Diploma in Education
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