The Most Dangerous Game

Where is Rainsford supposed to be going at the beginning of the story?

• New York

• Ship-Trap Island

• Rio, Brazil (Amazon)

• Russia

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How does Rainsford end up on Ship-Trap Island?

• Rainsford's yacht capsized during a hurricane

• Whitney threw Rainsford overboard during a heated debate about animals having emotions

• Zaroff invited Rainsford to go hunting there

• Rainsford accidentally fell overboard and had to swim to the island

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

• Humans are faster than animals, so they are harder to catch

• Humans have the ability to reason, so they are smarter than animals

• Humans are physically stronger than animals, so they put up a better fight

• Humans are inherently evil, so they deserve to die

Zaroff is initially excited to have Rainsford on the island because they are both ____________?

• sailors

• rich

• Cossacks

• hunters

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

• Zaroffs gives Rainsford the option to play Zaroff's game or Ivan's game

• Zaroff invites Rainsford to go hunting for a human

• Zaroff invites Rainsford to see his other collection of heads in his library

• Zaroff invites Rainsford to dinner

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What ethnicity is Zaroff?

• Caribbean

• American

• Cossack

• Columbian

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

• makes fun of Rainsford for being afraid of hunting humans

• explains how he uses electricity to obtain the men he hunts

• says all Cossacks are savages and that he, Zaroff, is a Cossack

• claims that it is not murder to kill sailors because they are "scum"

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General Zaroff first comes to Ship-Trap Island because . . .

• his ship sank and he was forced to swim to it

• he inherited it from his father and likes to stay there during the summer

• he bought it in order to build his chateau there and hunt humans in secrecy

• he used to live there as a child

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Who is dead by the end of the story?

• Rainsford

• Rainsford and Zaroff

• Rainsford, Ivan, and Zaroff

• Zaroff, Ivan, and one of Zaroff's best dogs

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Rainsford finally gets the best of Zaroff when . . .?

• Rainsford swims to Zaroff's chateau, surprises him, then kills him

• Rainsford kills Ivan leaving Zaroff defenseless

• Rainsford catches Zaroff in a Malay man catcher trap

• Rainsford jumps off the cliff and swims to his yacht where Whitney is waiting for him

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