Ms. Roach RL. 10.1/10.5 Lesson

The Most Dangerous Game

Use this text to answer the following questions.

Lesson Targets

Describe how aspects of text structure, order of events, and timing creates the effect of mystery, tension or surprise.

Multiple Choice

Which best expresses the tones evoked by the opening of this short story?

(Tone reveals the narrator's attitude as conveyed by their specific word choice.

The tone be excited, depressed, sarcastic, frightened, or hopeful. These communicate the way the narrator feels about the situation.)

• misery and pain

• laughter and joy

• mystery and suspense

• frustration and curiosity

Multiple Select

What are three ways the tones identified in the previous are created?

• the use of comedic dialogue to lighten the mood

• the darkly ominous setting of a pitch-black might

• the discussion of what it might feel like to be hunted

• the use of rhyming words to create a light-hearted tone

• the use of suggestive and suspenseful names like "Shiptrap Island"

Crime and Punishment

Use this text to answer the following questions.

Multiple Choice

Which word has nearly the same meaning as abject?

• arrogant

• disgusted

• pretentious

• proud

• shameful

Multiple Choice

Which word BEST describes the mood of the passage?

• frightening

• gloomy

• mysterious

• suspenseful

Multiple Choice

Which detail should be included in a summary of the passage?

• The young man wonders what men fear the most.

• It is an exceptionally hot evening in July.

• The young man is considering committing a crime.

• The house the young man lives in has five stories.

Multiple Choice

What does like a cat mean in the excerpt?

no, rather that, he would creep down the stairs like a cat and slip out unseen

• abruptly

• carefully

• frustratingly

• mysteriously

• quietly

Multiple Choice

What is paragraph 3 MOSTLY about?

• how the young man feels about being poor

• the young man's deteriorating mental state

• the young man's relationship with his landlady

• how the young man feels about being with others

Multiple Choice

Why does the young man frequently see his landlady?

• They live on the same floor.

• They pass each other on the stairs.

• He shares meals with her in the kitchen.

• He passes her kitchen whenever he leaves.

Multiple Choice

What is the MAIN purpose of paragraph 4?

• to inform

• to describe

• to emphasize

• to foreshadow

Multiple Choice

Which phrase means the OPPOSITE of prevaricate in paragraph 3?

• to exaggerate

• to avoid cleverly

• to make confusing

• to outright deceive

• to deal with honestly

Multiple Choice

How does the young man feel about his financial state now?

• He is obsessed with it.

• He is indifferent to it.

• He is hopeful that it will improve.

• He is certain that he can remedy it.

Multiple Choice

What is the young man thinking of doing at the end of the passage?

• robbing someone

• isolating himself

• committing murder

• committing suicide