The Most Dangerous Game Prime Time

What is General Zaroff’s main reason for preferring to hunt human beings rather than animals?

• There is no big game on his island.
• He doesn’t like to kill animals.
• He hates people.
• Hunting men is more of a challenge.

Rainsford first realizes that he is going to be the prey when

• he sees the blood and empty cartridge in the brush
• General Zaroff says he hunts game that is more dangerous the Cape buffalo
• General Zaroff says he has invented a new animal to hunt
• General Zaroff tells him he can participate in either Ivan’s or the general’s sport

The general welcomes Rainsford especially because the general

• is glad to meet another hunter
• is writing a book
• needs help on his hunts
• wants news about Russia

Which of the following statements best describes how General Zaroff justifies his hunting of human beings?

• Animal life us more valuable than human life
• Individual rights are more important than laws
• Only the strong deserve to survive.
• Human beings are not responsible for one another.

The best evidence that General Zaroff is aware of his own viciousness and cruelty is that he

• tells Rainsford not to cry while being hunted
• explains how he obtains the men he hunts
• says that all Cossacks are savage and that he, Zaroff, is a Cossack
• claims that the men he hunts are “scum”, and that it is not to murder to kill them

What is the best interpretation of General Zaroff’s description of his captives as inferior specimens?

• He believes that they are not entitled to live.
• He thinks that they should not be used as specimens in a museum.
• He knows that they are not in good health.
• He thinks that they are not strong.

The central conflict in “The Most Dangerous Game” and in most action stories is

• a subtle external conflict
• a large internal conflict
• a small internal conflict
• a violent external conflict

When Rainsford has difficulty sleeping the night before the hunt, it implies that he is having

• an internal conflict
• an antagonistic conflict
• a protagonist conflict
• an external conflict

What literary device is best represented by this example: When General Zaroff says that he has invented an animal that can reason

• Symbolism
• Foreshadowing
• Conflict
• Characterization

When we can infer that General Zaroff is a cruel murderer because he claims to be a Cossack and hunts humans, this is an example of

• Round character
• Flat character
• Direct characterization
• Indirect characterization