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

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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."

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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.'"

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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.

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

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.'"

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Foreshadowing

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3