"The Most Dangerous Game" Review

Whitney and Rainsford's conversation about Ship-Trap Island and hunting as a sport is part of the story's ______.

• conflict

• exposition

• rising action

• climax

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What element of plot describes the scene in “The Most Dangerous Game” when Rainsford hears a gunshot and upon further inspection falls off the boat and into the Caribbean waters?

• Climax

• Exposition

• Inciting incident

• Rising action

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Raisnford jumping off the cliff is the story's _____.

• rising action 
• climax
• falling action 
• resolution 

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The resolution of the story is when _______.

• Rainsford makes the Burmese tiger pit.
• Rainsford jumps off the cliff.
• Rainsford surprises Zaroff in his bedroom.

• Rainsford wins the game. 

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

All of these are FLASHBACKS in the text EXCEPT _____.

• Zaroff tells Rainsford about his childhood.
• Rainsford remembers his time hunting in Uganda.
• Rainsford thinks about making a Malay Man-Catcher in Malacca.
• Zaroff uses the hounds.

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

All the details that the author provides about Ship-Trap Island are examples of _____.

• a flashback
• foreshadowing
• theme
• point to view

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CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.5

Which of the following statements is the best example of foreshadowing in the story?

• The fact that Rainsford smokes a pipe foreshadows his death.

• Rainsford's observation of pistol shots and an unfamiliar animal sound when he arrives on Ship-Trap Island foreshadows Zaroff's "game."

• The fact that Ivan does not speak foreshadows the story of Ivan’s youth

• Rainsford’s construction of traps foreshadows that he is an expert hunter.

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

CCSS.W.9-10.9

Which of the following words best describes the mood in this excerpt from the text?

Jagged crags appeared to jut into the opaqueness . . . Dense jungle came down to the very edge of the cliffs (37).

• ominous

• placid

• disarming

• futile

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

From what point-of-view is "The Most Dangerous Game" told?

• First-person from Zaroff's perspective

• First-person from Rainsford's perspective

• Third-person limited from Rainsford's perspective

• Third-person limited from Whitney's perspective

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CCSS.RL.9-10.6

Why does the point-of-view in the story create suspense?

• We know everything that Rainsford is thinking.

• We don't know what Zaroff is thinking.

• We never hear Ivan speak.

• Whitney only appears in the first scene of the story.

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.6