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The extract describes a figure that has fallen on a mountainside, tangled in a parachute, and is being moved by a gentle breeze. The figure's movements are dictated by the wind, causing it to bow and rise intermittently. The accompanying questions prompt analysis of the figure's identity, its arrival on the island, and the implications for the boys' plans regarding a fire.

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Chapter 6 Questions

The extract describes a figure that has fallen on a mountainside, tangled in a parachute, and is being moved by a gentle breeze. The figure's movements are dictated by the wind, causing it to bow and rise intermittently. The accompanying questions prompt analysis of the figure's identity, its arrival on the island, and the implications for the boys' plans regarding a fire.

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Chapter 6 Questions

Read the following extract and answer the questions below.

[The beast is being described.]

The figure fell and crumpled among the blue flowers of the mountainside,

but now there was a gentle breeze at this height too and the

parachute flopped and banged and pulled. So the figure, with feet

that dragged behind it, slid up the mountain. Yard by yard, puff by

puff, the breeze hauled the figure through the blue flowers, over

the boulders and red stones, till it lay huddled among the shattered

rocks of the mountain-top. Here the breeze was fitful and allowed the

strings of the parachute to tangle and festoon: and the figure sat, its

helmeted head between its knees, held by a complication of lines.

When the breeze blew the lines would strain taut and some accident

of this pull lifted the head and chest upright so that the figure seemed

to peer across the brow of the mountain. Then, each time the wind

dropped, the lines would slacken and the figure bow forward again,

sinking its head between its knees. So as the stars moved across

the sky, the figure sat on the mountain-top and bowed and sank and

bowed again.

Questions
1. Match the names in COLUMN 1 to the descriptions in COLUMN 2.

Write down only the question number (1(a)-1(c)) and the letter (A-D)

of your answer. (3)

COLUMN 1 COLUMN 2

(a) Littluns

(b) Samneric

(c) Roger

A think that the dead airman is the beast

B hunted for meat


C often fainted

D afraid of the beastie

2. (a) To what does “the figure” in the extract refer? (1)

(b) How does the figure end up on the island? State TWO points. (2)

(c) Who discovers the figure on the mountain top later? (1)

3. Refer to line 6 (“Here the breeze was fitful...”).

(a) Why does the writer describe the breeze in this way? (1)

(b) What does the breeze do to the figure? (1)

4. The figure lands close to where the fire normally is.

(a) How does this affect the boys’ plans? State THREE things. (3)

(b) How do Jack and Ralph differ in their views of the importance of

the fire? (2)

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