Most Dangerous Game

Ship-Trap Island is feared by whom?

• sailors
• cannibals
• otherwise stable people
• All of the options

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Why does Rainsford swim toward the pistol shots?

• Because he loves a good gunfight.
• He is just trying to get to shore.
• Because he thinks a poor animal is being harmed.
• Because he’s hungry.

Rainsford thinks the animals don’t understand what?

• Anything
• Fear of pain and death
• Him
• Why they are being hunted

To Rainsford, a realist is someone who does what?

• Believes in literal truths
• Doesn’t get into all that fancy philosophical stuff
• Thinks that jaguars have fear
• Likes to hunt

Why are the crew’s nerves jumpy?

• Because they are anxious to get to hunting.
• Because they have scurvy.
• Because they are superstitious.
• Because they have read Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and know that still waters can’t be a good thing.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

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What does the island symbolize?

• A crazy spring break with inappropriate behavior all around
• Off-shore accounts
• Isolation and lack of civilization
• Retirement

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Zaroff traps sailors on the island using what?

• Underwater landmines
• The Malay ship catcher
• Giant rocks with razor edges
• A pistol and an evil attitude

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

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How is this hunt compared to digging trenches in World War I?

• Like a kid in a sandbox
• A fun diversion
• Significantly harder and scarier
• Less chilly but equally scary

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What is Zaroff’s definition of “civilized”?

• Enjoying filet mignon, having electricity, and not thinking so highly about humans that you aren’t willing to kill them.
• Pizza Hut.
• Having interpersonal relationships.
• Being able to cry.

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What happens to Rainsford in the end?

• He becomes something of a homicidal maniac himself.
• He realizes the complex ethical implications of hunting.
• He is prepared to call it even with Zaroff.
• He learns a good life lesson.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

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