The Most Dangerous Game Review

How does Rainsford feel about hunting at the beginning of the story?

• He thinks hunting is cruel and inhumane

• He thinks hunting is the best sport in the world

• He thinks hunting is for small-minded, uncivilized people

• He is excited to learn about how to be a great hunter from Whitney

Choose all of the following that are examples of FORESHADOWING from the beginning of the story:

• "Not four yards," admitted Rainsford. "Ugh! It's like moist black velvet."

• "The old charts call it `Ship-Trap Island,"' Whitney replied." A suggestive name, isn't it?"

• "Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing--with wave lengths, just as sound and light have. An evil place can, so to speak, broadcast vibrations of evil."

• "Then he said to me, very gravely, `Don't you feel anything?'--as if the air about us was actually poisonous. Now, you mustn't laugh when I tell you this--I did feel something like a sudden chill."

Which literary device is being used in the quotation:

"It's so dark," he thought, "that I could sleep without closing my eyes; the night would be my eyelids--"

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Choose the quotations that contain an example of DIRECT CHARACTERIZATION:

• "The first thing Rainsford's eyes discerned was the largest man Rainsford had ever seen--a gigantic creature, solidly made and black bearded to the waist."

• "Don't be alarmed," said Rainsford, with a smile which he hoped was disarming. "I'm no robber. I fell off a yacht. My name is Sanger Rainsford of New York City."

• "Then Rainsford saw the man's free hand go to his forehead in a military salute, and he saw him click his heels together and stand at attention."

• "A small, glittering object not far away caught Rainsford's eye and he picked it up. It was an empty cartridge.'A twenty-two,' he remarked. 'That's odd.'"

What is the inference General Zaroff makes about the type of game he hunts on the island?

"I wanted the ideal animal to hunt," explained the general. "So I said, `What are the attributes of an ideal quarry? It must have courage, cunning, and, above all, it must be able to reason."'

• He had hunted so much that there were no more animals on the island to hunt.

• He was hunting humans on the island.

• He gave up hunting because it was boring to him.

• He couldn't hunt anymore because he didn't have anyone to hunt with.

Which of the following is an example of sensory language?

• "The ground grew softer under his moccasins; the vegetation grew ranker, denser. Then, his foot sank into the ooze. He tried to wrench it back, but the muck sucked viciously at his foot as if it were a giant leech."

• "Even so zealous a hunter as General Zaroff could not trace him there, he told himself; only the devil himself could follow that complicated trail through the jungle after dark. But perhaps the general was a devil--"

• "The general was playing with him! The general was saving him for another day's sport! The Cossack was the cat; he was the mouse."

• "'You've done well, Rainsford,' the voice of the general called. 'Your Burmese tiger pit has claimed one of my best dogs. Again you score.'"

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

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

• Whitney’s tales of Ship-Trap Island foreshadows danger.

• 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.

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

The following is an example of what literary device? "The night was like moist black velvet."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Foreshadowing

The following is an example of what type of figurative language? "On three sides the cliffs dived down to where the sea licked greedy lips."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Foreshadowing