His speech made Piggy to lift the conch out of his hands. Then he retired and sat as far away from the others as possible.
Piggy was speaking now with more assurance and with what, if the circumstances had not been so serious, the others would have recognized as pleasure.
“I said we could all do without a certain person. Now I say we got to decide on what can be done. And I think I could tell you what Ralph’s going to say next. The most important thing on the island is the smoke and you can’t have no smoke without a fire.”
Ralph made a restless movement.
“No go, Piggy. We’ve got no fire. That thing sits up there—we’ll have to stay here.”
Piggy lifted the conch as though to add power to his next words.
“We got no fire on the mountain. But what’s wrong with a fire down here? A fire could be built on them rocks. On the sand, even. We’d make smoke just the same.”
“That’s right!”
“Smoke!”
“By the bathing pool!”
The boys began to babble. Only Piggy could have the intellectual daring to suggest moving the fire from the mountain.
“So we’ll have the fire down here,” said Ralph.
He looked about him. “We can build it just here between the bathing pool and the platform. Of course—”
He broke off, frowning, thinking the thing out, unconsciously tugging at the stub of a nail with his teeth.
“Of course the smoke won’t show so much, not be seen so far away. But we needn’t go near, near the—”
The others nodded in perfect comprehension. There would be no need to go near.
“We’ll build the fire now.”
The greatest ideas are the simplest. Now there was something to be done they worked with passion. Piggy was so full of delight and expanding liberty in Jack’s departure, so full of pride in his contribution to the good of society, that he helped to fetch wood. The wood he fetched was close at hand, a fallen tree on the platform that they did not need for the assembly, yet to the others the sanctity of the platform had protected even what was useless there. Then the twins realized they would have a fire near them as a comfort in the night and this set a few littluns dancing and clapping hands.

What is the significance of this passage as it pertains to Piggy’s character.
That he was truly incapable of being successful at anything
That he could, in fact contribute to their survival
That he felt more comfortable in the absence of Jack
Both b and c

What is the significance of this passage as it pertains to Piggy and Ralph’s relatonship?
That they were never going to get along with each other
That their ideas clashed from time to time
That Ralph really does need Piggy’s advice
That Ralph and Piggy were incapable of leading the other boys

What is the significance of this passage as it pertains to the littluns’ opinion of Ralph and Piggy’s leadership?
That they now felt more comfortable
That they now felt more fearful
That they now felt as if Jack would made the better leader
That they wished to go off on their own and have no leaders

An “aphorism” is a brief, wise statement that holds universal, timeless truth. In other words, it is true regardless of where one is from or when one is alive. Which of the following statements from the passage above is an aphorism.

“[H]e allowed Piggy to lift the conch out of his hands.”
“Piggy was so full of delight and expanding liberty in Jack’s departure, so full of pride in his contribution to the good of society, that he helped to fetch wood.”
“The greatest ideas are the simplest.”
“The boys began to babble.”

What is the most likely purpose for the use of the word, “frowning,” in this sentence? “He broke off, frowning, thinking the thing out, unconsciously tugging at the stub of a nail with his teeth.”

To indicate Piggy’s seriousness and depth of thought
To portray Piggy as being too negative about the situation
To characterize Piggy as too serious about his opinions
Both b and c