Name ______________________
e h t f Lord o Flies By William Golding
CLOZE ACTIVITIES
Fill in the blank spaces in the following chapter summaries using the spare words in the box. Once completed, compare these summaries to the summaries you have written in your booklets and add anything you might have missed.
C h ap t e r 1 “The sound of the shell”
Asthma
Aunt
Badge
Bomb
Cap
Chief
Choir
Conch
Fat
Flames
Golden
Hair
Hunters
Jack
Kill
Knife
Navy
Piggy
Piglet
Shell
Simon
Spectacles
Swim
Twelve
Vote
The story begins with the boy with fair ______________ climbing down the rocks. A voice behind him calls out for him to wait. This voice comes from a ______________ boy who wears ______________ or glasses. The first boy introduces himself as, Ralph and the second boy introduces himself as ______________.
The two boys are on an island with no grown-ups because their plane was shot down. Ralph, who is ______________ years old, thinks that the pilot will be back to get the boys, but Piggy tells him that he saw the part of the plane with the pilot in ______________. He continues to tell Ralph that the passenger part of the plane was carried out to sea by a storm. Piggy assumes that there must be other boys on the island. Ralph seems not to pay too much attention to Piggy and runs through the jungle. Piggy says that he shouldn’t run on account of his ______________.
Ralph gets naked and goes for a swim in the pool. Piggy does not go because he cannot ______________; he wasn’t allowed to because of his asthma. Ralph says he learned how because his dad is in the ______________. Piggy’s father is dead, and he was living with his ______________. He tells Piggy that his father will come and rescue them once he gets some time off. Piggy doesn’t think this is possible because the pilot had told them that there was an atom ______________ and the people at the airport were all dead. 1
After Ralph’s swim, the two boys come across a conch; a ______________ that can be used like a trumpet to call any other boys on the island. The ______________ was cream colour with a bit of fading pink throughout the shell. After Ralph gets the conch to sound, boys start gathering in front of Ralph and Piggy.
Many boys come, but the last group of boys is a choir. Each member wears a black ______________ with a silver ______________ on it. Their entire bodies are covered by a black cloak, which “bore a silver cross on the left breast.” The boy who is in charge of this group wears a ______________ badge on his cap. This boy introduces himself by his last name Merridew although his first name is ______________.
After everyone laughs at Piggy because of his name and after everyone introduces themselves, Ralph suggests that they decide on a chief to make decisions. Jack says that he should be chief because he is the head boy of the ______________ and he can sing a C sharp. Roger suggests that all the boys vote to see who should be ______________. The boys ______________ Ralph to be chief. Ralph offers Jack control of the choir, and Jack decides that the choir will be ______________.
Ralph, Jack, and ______________ go on an exploration to decide that they are indeed on an island. On their way back from the exploration, they find a ______________ stuck in the creepers. Jack raises his ______________ to kill it, but he hesitates and it gets away. He promises himself that the next time he has the chance to ______________ there will be no mercy.
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C h ap t e r 2 “Fire on the mountain”
Beastie
Branch
Cold
Conch
Fear
Fire
Glasses
Hunters
Island
Last
Match
Mountain
Pig
Piggy
Ralph
Rescued
Rules
Shelters
Simon
Six
Smoke
True
Wood
Younger
After the three boys - Ralph, Jack, and ______________ return from their exploration, Ralph explains to the rest of the boys that they are indeed on an uninhabited ______________. Jack tells the boys about the need for ______________ and the story of the ______________ that they encountered.
Realising that there needs to be order, Ralph tells the boys that there needs to be ______________ when speaking. The boy who holds the ______________ is the only one allowed to talk. And the only one who is allowed to interrupt is ______________.
Piggy takes the conch and is upset because nobody is allowing Ralph to say what is most important. ______________ tells the boys that nobody knows they are there. Ralph tells the boys that that is ______________, but the island is terrific and they will have a good time while they wait to be ______________.
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Jack asks if anyone else has found anything. No one speaks, but a little boy of about ______________ years of age comes up. He timidly takes the conch and speaks. He asks what is going to be done about the snake-thing; he later calls it a ______________. The boys laughed at first, but later they sense some ______________. Ralph tries to make everyone comfortable by telling them that an island couldn’t have a beastie.
Ralph suggests that making a ______________ will help get the boys rescued. Jack yells, “Follow me,” and the boys rashly run up to the top of the ______________ and gather dried ______________ to start a fire. Piggy is the ______________ to make it up the mountain. When he arrives, the boys are trying to figure out how to make fire Ralph doesn’t know how, and he stupidly asks if anyone has a ______________. Jack, on the other, figures out he can use Piggy’s ______________.
The boys discover that the fire was no good because there was only flame, no ______________. A boy suggests putting a green ______________ on the fire next time. Piggy is outraged and grabs the conch and tries to speak. He thinks it was stupid to build a fire haphazardly and not to think about building ______________ for the evening. He says that it gets ______________ at night on the ______________. While Piggy is talking, the boys realize that they have accidentally set the island on fire. Piggy makes Ralph realize that some of the ______________ boys probably are scared because of the fire.
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C h ap t e r 3 “Huts on the beach”
Bath
Beastie
Fire
Forest
Home
Hunters
Huts
Jack
Kill
Littluns
Meat
Meetings
Pig
Rain
Ralph
Rescued
Screamed
Secret
Ship
Simon
Sprinter
Submarine
Sun
Tree
Water
Jack is crouched down like a ______________. He is half-naked and trying to hunt a ______________. After he is unable to kill a pig, he comes out of the dark ______________ and sees Ralph and ______________ building ______________ for shelter. He asks for some ______________, which Ralph tells him is by the ______________.
Ralph is disappointed in the way the ______________, or children, do not help him build the shelters. Simon suggests telling them off, but Ralph shows his disappointment with ______________. He says they could have one, and they would decide to do something like build a ______________, but five minutes later everyone would be off playing and not helping. When ______________ implies that Jack is also guilty of leaving responsibility, Jack argues that they all need ______________. Ralph antagonises Jack by saying that Jack has yet to ______________ anything.
Ralph tries to argue that shelters are needed in case of ______________. But also they need shelter to create a sense of ______________. The children are still afraid of the ______________, or the snake-thing, and shelter might help calm that fear. 5
 Ralph argues that the most important thing is to get ______________. Jack has a hard time remembering what that word means. He says that he would prefer to catch a pig first.
While Ralph is telling Jack to make sure his ______________ remember to keep the ______________ going, ______________ realizes where the pig must be hiding from the hot ______________. This angers Ralph because the way Jack ______________ when he made this discovery made Ralph think Jack saw a ______________.
After they are done talking, they notice that Simon is gone. They assume that he is taking a ______________. But he is not in the bathing pool; rather, he has escaped to a ______________ place in the forest.
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C h ap t e r 4 “Painted faces & Long Hair”
Apology
Blood
Castles
Dazzle
Dead
Eric
Glasses
Henry
Hunt
Jack
Meat
Original
Out
Piggy
Punches
Ralph
Roger
Sea
Ship
Simon
Smoke
Stones
Throat
Youngest
Transparencies
The chapter begins with three littluns, the generic title for the smaller boys, building sand ______________. The three boys are Percival, the smallest and ______________ of the three; Henry, the biggest of them; and Johnny, who is well built.
After ______________ gets bored, he leaves, and Roger follows him. Henry becomes interested in tiny transparencies, little creatures from the ______________. He starts to become fascinated with controlling the movement of these scavengers. While Henry’s attention is on the ______________, Roger starts to throw ______________ at Henry. He misses him on purpose.
About ten yards behind him, Jack calls for ______________. He follows Jack and finds Sam, Eric, Bill, and Jack putting ______________ paint on their faces. They are going on a ______________ for a pig. A problem is that Sam and ______________ are neglecting their duty of the fire. This later proves disastrous because Ralph sees smoke from a ______________, but there is no ______________ for the ship to see them. 7
______________ and his crew return with a ______________ pig. They are chanting, “Kill the pig. Cut her ______________. Spill her ______________ ” Ralph interrupts Jack’s glory from the hunt to yell at him about letting the fire go ______________ . Piggy also yells at Jack, but this drives Jack to violence. Jack ______________ Piggy in the stomach and smacks his head, which causes Piggy’s ______________ to break.
Jack offers an ______________ to Ralph for letting the fire go out. And then they begin to start another fire, but they do so in a different location because ______________ will not move from the site of the ______________ fire.
Later they start to eat the pig. Ralph, who originally wants to resist eating the ______________, eats it. Piggy brings on more humiliation by asking about his share of the meat. Jack tells him he didn’t hunt. But, ______________ responds that neither did Ralph nor Simon. ______________gives Piggy his share of meat.
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C h ap t e r 5 “Beast from water”
Beastie
Boys
Coconut
Conch
Cry
Crybabies
Diarrhoea
Fire
Ghosts
Hair
Hunt
Jack
Meeting
Mountain
Piggy
Ralph
Rules
Science
Shelters
Shorts
Simon
Toilet
Trees
Triangle
Water
Ralph paces, thinking about what he is going to say at the ______________. He has decided that the meeting should not be fun; rather, it should be all business. Ralph has grown disgusted with the way he has been living. He dislikes flicking the tangled _______________ out of his face, and he dislikes how his frayed _______________ make him uncomfortable.
Before Ralph begins to talk, he thinks that a chief really needs to be able to think, and the problem is he cannot think as well as _______________ can. Ralph then calls the meeting. Almost everyone sits in the triangle except for Piggy who stands outside the _______________ to show his disapproval.
Ralph goes over the things the boys have decided in assemblies and have not gone through with. The first thing Ralph mentions is how the boys decided to bring water up and put it in the _______________ shells, but now they don’t. And the boys go down to the river to drink. The second thing he lists is the failure to build the _______________. He says that all the boys helped on the first one. But only four boys helped on the second one. And only he and Simon worked on the third one, which is tottery. Then Ralph complains about how the boys are no longer using the rocks beyond the bathing pool as their lavatory. It was the best place to have as a _______________ because the tide cleans it up. But now the boys seem to go 9
everywhere, which is disgusting because the littluns suffer from diarrhoea. Ralph tells the boys if they are suffering from _______________ to stay away from the fruit. Then Ralph says that they should die before they let the _______________ go out again. Ralph’s last command is that they don’t make a fire anywhere but on the _______________.
The group gets bored and restless with Ralph, but he tries to say one last thing; he tries to talk about the _______________ and fear that has taken over the island. Once _______________ is done speaking, Jack stands up and tells the littluns that they started all this stuff about beasts. He says that the littluns are nothing but a bunch of _______________ and sissies. He says that if there is a beastie, he will _______________ it. After Jack is done, Piggy tries to convince the boys that there are no such things as beasties or ghosts and that _______________ can prove it. Then a littlun by the name of Phil stands up and talks about how he saw something moving in the _______________. As it turns out, it wasn’t a beastie; it was _______________ going to his secret place in the forest.
Next Percival stands up. He is too timid to give his name. Percival starts to _______________ and the rest of the littluns join him. Maurice finally tells the group that he thinks the beastie comes out of the _______________. The boys truly get frightened when Simon speaks up and says that maybe there is a beastie and maybe it is the _______________ themselves. One of the boys interprets what Simon said as meaning that there are _______________. The group basically breaks into chaos over the mention of them.
Piggy grabs the _______________ and says that he didn’t vote for ghosts. Jack interrupts him, and Ralph tries to gain order. But Jack says there is no need for _______________ and that he is tired of Ralph always taking Piggy’s side.
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C h ap t e r 6 “Beast from air”
Awake
Bad
Beastie
Boulder
Cave
Claws
Eric
Explosion
Fire
Fort
Glory
Jack
Man
Mock
Parachute
Plane
Platform
Ralph
Rock
Signal
Teacher
Water
Waxy
Weapon
Wings
As Simon, Piggy, and Ralph go to sleep, there is an _______________ in the air about ten miles above them. Although no one is _______________ to see it, a _______________ is shot down. And afterwards a man strapped to a _______________ comes down to the island.
Sam and _______________ almost let the fire go out. Once they get it going again, one of them comments that had it gone out, Ralph would have been _______________. Then they _______________ Ralph and a previous school _______________. As they are sitting by the fire, Eric sees something and calls Sam’s attention to it. Once they both see the dead _______________ on a rock, they go running to Ralph. They tell the boys that they saw the _______________, and they embellish and say they saw the _______________ and _______________ of the beast. Ralph, Jack, and Piggy decide what to do. _______________ wants to hunt it right away. Ralph wants to wait until they have the _______________ going. And Piggy wants to live on the _______________. Ralph suggests checking the castle _______________, where they haven’t been before.
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When they reach it, _______________ goes alone to explore. Jack shortly follows because he couldn’t let Ralph have all the _______________. Once Jack sees the _______________, he tells Ralph that it would be great for a _______________. Ralph thinks it is a _______________ idea because there is not much fresh _______________ there. While Jack explains how to use the _______________ as a _______________, Ralph realizes that there is no _______________.
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C h ap t e r 7 “Shadows & Tall Trees”
Boys
Crazy
Dark
Dead
Fire
Frog
Game
Home
Hunt
Jack
Mountain
Parachute
Pig
Piggy
Pretend
Ralph
Robert
Roger
Saw
Scared
Ship
Simon
Spear
Tired
Wound
Simon realizes that Ralph is thinking about _______________. He tells Ralph that he knows that he will make it back all right. Ralph thinks Simon is batty, or _______________, and asks him sarcastically if he has a _______________ in his pocket.
On their way to the mountain, the boys _______________ for a pig. _______________ gets his first experience at hunting, and he enjoys it. He is able to get his _______________ into the pig. _______________ is injured slightly by the boar because he waited too long to put his spear into him. Simon tells Jack to suck on the _______________ to make it better.
After this the boys get excited and start to _______________ they are hunting a pig. They use _______________ as the pig. The _______________ get too involved and Robert ends up getting hurt. Jack and Ralph play it off as if it were nothing but a _______________. Jack says next time they should have a littlun play the _______________.
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It is getting late, and Ralph still wants to make it to the _______________ to restart the _______________. Maurice suggests that they should get back to _______________. _______________ volunteers to go alone to Piggy and tell him that the rest won’t be back until later.
Jack and Ralph keep pushing each other to go up the mountain in the _______________. The rest of the boys all leave Jack, Ralph, and _______________ by themselves. They are not scared, they say, but rather _______________.
Jack goes up the mountain alone after Ralph implied that he was too _______________ to do so. He later comes down saying he _______________ something. Roger scares the two of them when he suggests it is a _______________. The three of them go up to have a look and they see the _______________ man with the _______________. The three of them run, leaving their spears on the mountain.
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C h ap t e r 8 “Gift for Darkness”
Beastie
Blood
Chief
Conch
Conversation
Cowards
Fight
Gift
Head
Hide
Hunt
Hunters
Jack
Meat
Mountain
Piggy
Play
Ralph
Rocks
Secret
Simon
Sow
Sticks
Throat
Vote
After Jack and Ralph come back, Piggy can hardly believe that there really is a beastie up on the _______________. Jack meanly tells _______________ to go check for himself, hoping he will get hurt. Ralph explains to Piggy that no one could _______________ the beastie. He says that even Jack would _______________ if the beast came after them. Ralph goes on to say that the _______________ are nothing but boys with _______________ and that they are no good against the _______________.
Jack is insulted and takes the _______________ and calls a meeting. He first tells the boys that they did see the beastie. Then he tells them that Ralph thinks the hunters are _______________ because they ran away from the boar and the beastie. And third, he tells the boys that Ralph says things like Piggy; therefore, he isn’t a proper _______________. Jack then calls for a _______________ to see who thinks Ralph shouldn’t be chief. No one openly votes against _______________. This hurts Jack, and he says that he is no longer going to _______________ any longer.
After _______________ runs from the platform, Ralph and the rest behind sit depressed. _______________ stands and suggests that they climb the mountain and face the beastie. The group basically ignores Simon, and Piggy suggests what Ralph should suggest: keep the fire going. Piggy says that they can keep the fire on the _______________ so that they don’t have to go up the mountain. 15
Jack declares himself chief and says that they should _______________. They come upon a sow nursing her piglets. They decide to kill the helpless _______________. After Jack cuts the pig’s _______________, he laughs as he flicks the _______________ from his palms. He then wipes a bunch of the blood on Maurice’s cheeks. After he cleans the pig’s guts out, he says that they will raid the platform for their fire. Before going they sharpen a stick and post the pig’s _______________. This is meant as a _______________ for the beastie.
When Jack and his tribe raid the beach for fire, Jack is stark naked except for his belt and paint. He invites the boys on the beach, including Ralph and Piggy, to have some _______________ at their feast. This is very tempting to the boys. Simon comes out of his _______________ place and sees the pig’s head, which is referred to as the Lord of the Flies. He hallucinates a _______________ with the head, which tells him that he is really the Beast. After the pig’s head threatens to kill Simon he fainted.
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C h ap t e r 9 “A view to a death”
Beach
Beastie
Bled
Blood
Boys
Chief
Conch
Dance
Dead
Fainting
Head
Hungry
Hunters
Jack
Kill
Man
Meat
Mountain
Parachute
Party
Ralph
Simon
Spear
Throat
Tribe
Simon wakes up from his _______________ spell. His nose _______________, but the flies are more interested in the pig’s _______________. He decides to go up the _______________ and look for the _______________. Once on the mountain, he sees the dead _______________ attached to the parachute. Simon frees the _______________ lines from the rock. He then looks at the island and sees that most, if not all, of the _______________ are on Jack’s end of the _______________.
Because _______________ and Piggy are _______________ and curious, they go visit Jack’s _______________. Once there Jack is sitting on a log. When he speaks, he waves his _______________. He commands some boys to give Piggy and Ralph some _______________.
After the boys have eaten all that they want, Jack asks who is going to join his _______________. Ralph says that he was voted as _______________. And Jack says that his _______________ will protect the boys from the beastie. _______________ points out to Ralph that he doesn’t have the _______________ and if he did have it, it wouldn't matter on this side of the beach.
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During Jack and Ralph’s argument about who should be chief, Jack told the boys to do their _______________. There is thunder and lightning. The boys are chanting, “Kill the beast! Cut his _______________! Spill his _______________!” Out from the forest comes _______________ crying out that the beastie was nothing but a _______________ man. The other boys jump Simon and _______________ him.
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C h ap t e r 1 0 “The shell & the glass”
Beastie
Bill
Camp
Chief
Dance
Day
Eric
Fire
Glasses
Guard
Head
Hours
Jack
Littluns
Log
Murder
Outside
Robert
Roger
Samneric
Scratch
Simon
Stopped
Tribe
Wilfred
Ralph learns from Piggy that only a few _______________ and Samneric are left. The rest have joined Jack’s _______________. Ralph is upset about the _______________ of Simon the night before. Piggy tries to persuade Ralph that they weren’t involved in the murder because they were on the _______________ of the circle. He also tries to suggest that maybe _______________ was just pretending, but he is sure that he wasn’t. Piggy tells Ralph that they cannot tell _______________ about the dance. Samneric, however, try to cover up their involvement in the _______________ also. They tell Ralph and Piggy that they left the feast early before the dance. But Sam somehow has a _______________ on his forehead and _______________ has a split lip.
When _______________ approaches the Castle Rock, he is challenged. Robert, who is the _______________, asks him who he is even though he can obviously see who it is. He tells Roger that Jack has commanded that he challenge everyone. Roger tells them that he couldn’t have _______________ him if he tried, but _______________ draws his attention to a rock with a _______________ jammed under it. He indicates that he could have smashed him. This really impresses Roger; he says, “He’s a proper _______________, isn’t he?” 19
Robert changes the subject and tells Roger that Jack is going to beat _______________ for making him angry. He tells Roger that the boy has been tied up for _______________.
Jack tells the boys that they still need to be careful about the _______________. He implies that the beast came disguised as Simon, but that they did not know it. They still need to offer it the _______________ if they go hunting. Then he tells the boys that they will go hunting the following day. _______________ asks Jack how they are going to light a fire. Jack tells him that they will just take the _______________ from the other boys again.
However, when Jack and his boys show up at Ralph’s _______________, there is no fire. There is no fire because Ralph, Piggy, and Samneric have decided to keep the fire going only during the _______________. Jack and his boys then decide to steal Piggy’s _______________. They enter the shelter and fight. _______________ exits with the glasses.
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C h ap t e r 1 1 “Castle Rock”
Asked
Assembly
Blows
Capture
Castle
Conch
Fight
Fire
Forest
Glasses
Hair
Jack
Littluns
Paint
Piggy
Ralph
Right
Roger
Sabers
Samneric
Sow
Spear
Stolen
Thief
Wash
After Piggy’s _______________ are stolen, he urges Ralph to blow the _______________ and call an _______________. Ralph does, but only Samneric, Piggy, Ralph, and a few _______________ appear. Ralph is very upset that Jack has _______________ Piggy’s glasses. He says that he would have given Jack _______________ if he had _______________ for it.
At the assembly, Piggy suggests that they go and demand that Jack give back the glasses because “what’s right’s _______________.” Samneric say that they should put _______________ on since Jack’s boys are all painted. Ralph suggests they should _______________. Piggy suggests they should tie their _______________ back if it is bothering them.
When Piggy, Ralph, and _______________ arrive at the _______________ Rock, Ralph _______________ the conch and calls a meeting. Jack comes from the _______________ carrying a headless _______________ and asks Ralph what he wants. Ralph tells him that he wants the fire and the glasses. He calls Jack a _______________. Because of this, Jack starts to _______________ with Ralph using spears
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 as _______________. They eventually stop fighting. Piggy reminds Ralph that they are there to get his glasses. Jack tells his boys to _______________ Samneric.
_______________ releases the rock and kills _______________. Then _______________ throws his _______________ at Ralph, injuring him. After this the rest of the tribe starts throwing spears, and _______________ runs away into the forest.
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C h ap t e r 1 2 “Cry of the hunters”
Big
Boss
Climb
Fire
Games
Hiding
Hunt
Jack
Meat
Officer
Piggy
Platform
Ralph
Rescue
Rock
Roger
Samneric
Sharpened
Skull
Smoke
Stick
Thicket
Tortured
Tribe
Twins
Ralph decides that he cannot stay on the _______________ by himself. He starts back toward Castle _______________. On the way, he meets the Lord of the Flies and knocks the _______________ off the stick and takes the _______________ with him as a weapon. When Ralph reaches Castle Rock, he talks to _______________, who are guarding the entrance. They have joined Jack’s _______________ because _______________ tortured them. They warn Ralph that the following day all the boys are going to _______________ him. They tell Ralph that they are going to sweep the island and find him. They tell him that Jack has _______________ a stick at both ends.
Ralph tells the _______________ that he will hide in the _______________ near where _______________ was killed. He asks the twins to keep the hunt away from him. One of the twins gives Ralph a piece of _______________ before he leaves.
All does not go as planned, however. Samneric are once again _______________ by Roger. During this bout of torture they give up Ralph’s _______________ spot. _______________ and Roger drop _______________ rocks on the spot and eventually try to _______________ Ralph out with fire. Ralph runs out, trying to decide whether he should attack or _______________ a tree. 23
Because the boys had set the island on _______________, a British Naval _______________ arrives to _______________ the boys. When _______________ comes out of the forest, he sees an officer. The naval officer asks who is _______________, and Ralph says he is. The officer passes off what was happening on the island as a bit of “fun and _______________.”
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