The Most Dangerous Game Quiz

How does the author create suspense at the beginning of The Most Dangerous Game?

• He has Whitney refer to Captain Nielsen, a dangerous figure.

• He has Whitney describe the mysterious reputation of the island they are passing.

• He shows how Whitney and Rainsford plan to go hunting in the Amazon.

• He starts the story with dialogue, not description.

What is Rainsford's special skill?

• He is a chef known for his recipes for big game

• He is a avid hunter

• He is a sailor that travels the world

• He is a navy seal in the American special forces

What are Whitney's character traits?

• empathetic and smart

• angry and bitter

• nonemotional and ignorant

• lazy and ignorant

How does Rainsford end up in the sea at the beginning of the story?

• He was taking a midnight swim

• He was fishing for marlin

• He wasn't paying attention and slipped on the wet deck

• He was looking towards the sound of gunshots and fell overboard while trying to catch his pipe

According to Whitney, what do the hunted fear?

• Other animals

• Being abandoned

• Pain and death

• Man and God

"... the sea licked greedy lips..." is an example of

• Irony

• foreshadowing

• simile

• personification

"Who cares how a jaguar feels?""Perhaps the jaguar does," observed Whitney."Bah! They've no understanding." "...T world is made up of two classes-- the hunters and the huntees. Luckily, you and I are hunters." is an example of

• imagery

• irony

• peronification

• simile

"The old charts call it 'Ship-Trap Island,' Whitney replied. A suggestive name isn't it? Sailors have a curious dread of the place. I don't know why. Some superstition-- " is an example of

• simile

• allusion

• irony

• foreshadowing

 

"... his first thought was that he had come upon a village, for there were many lights. But as he forged along he saw to his great astonishment that all the lights were in one enormous building-- a lofty structure with pointed towers plunging upward into the gloom. His eyes made out the shadowy outlines of a palatial chateau."  is an example of

• foreshadowing

• imagery

• personification

• metaphor

Whitney recounts Captain Nielson's reaction to the island, "Don't you feel anything?" as if the the air about us was actually poisonous...creates what kind of mood?

• eerie and dreadful

• excited and joyful

• dull and boring

• curious and inquisitive