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English Literature

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Test Bite

As you know, it is important to use quotations in your writing to support your ideas about the characters.

Match these quotations to the character who says them or whom they refer to.

1. "We want to have fun. And we want to be rescued."

Piggy
Ralph
Simon
2. "[He] was a bore; his fat, his matter-of-fact ideas were dull: but there was always a little pleasure to be got by pulling his leg."

Ralph
Lennie
Piggy
3. "The mask compelled them."

Jack
Piggy
Simon
4. "Understand? We are going to have fun on this island!"

Piggy
Ralph
Simon
5. "Which is better - to have rules and to agree, or to hunt and kill?"

Simon
Piggy
Jack
6. "See? See? That's what you'll get! I meant that! There isn't a tribe for you any more! The conch is gone!"

Jack
Ralph
Piggy
7. "[He] wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart"

Simon
Jack
Ralph
8. "A thing was crawling out of the forest. It came darkly, uncertainly."

Simon
Ralph
Piggy

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