WorksheetsExtreme Social Darwinism in "The Most Dangerous Game"
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 24mins
The Malay man-catcher deals General Zaroff a slight injury, ending his hunt momentarily. Which is the best description of the Malay man-catcher.
He is a Malayan survival expert - the only one of Zaroff's quarries ever to have escaped.
It is a trap constructed by Rainsford. It involves a trigger and a falling dead tree.
It is a particularly fierce tiger from the Malaysian jungles. Zaroff introduced it to the island to make his hunts more challenging.
It is a device that Zaroff tries to use on Rainsford, but it backfires.
Rainsford digs a Burmese tiger pit. It has sharpened stakes in the bottom, and is concealed with a carpet woven of weeds and branches. What does Rainsford achieve with the trap.
One of Zaroff's dogs falls into the pit and is killed.
Zaroff falls into the pit and is seriously wounded. Rainsford offers to help him out, but Zaroff chooses "death with honour" instead.
Ivan falls into the pit. Rather than save him, Zaroff gives him a "mercy death" by shooting him in the head.
Nothing. Zaroff never even comes close to the pit.
Rainsford uses a trick he learned in Uganda, and ties his hunting knife to a "spring loaded" tree that recoils when triggered. The effect of this trap is
Rainsford sacrifices his hunting knife for nothing. Zaroff easily dodges the trap, and the knife does no damage.
The knife kill's Zaroff's favourite hunting dog, Cerberus.
The knife deals a death blow to Zaroff, making Ivan go berzerk with grief.
The knife misses Zaroff, but kills Ivan. Seeing that his trap had failed, Rainsford jumps off a 20-foot cliff into the sea.
The final confrontation between Rainsford and Zaroff happens in
the breaking surf in the spot where Rainsford first landed on the island.
the death swamp - the only place where the dogs could not follow Rainsford.
the pitch dark - Rainsford kills his adversary, but only finds out the next morning that it was Zaroff.
Zaroff's chateau - Rainsford beat Zaroff to the chateau and surprises him in his own bedroom.
The last sentences of the story describe
Rainsford talking to Whitney, admitting that animals do experience fear.
Rainsford sleeping comfortably in Zaroff's bed.
General Zaroff relaxing in his smoking room, looking with satisfaction at the trophy of Rainsford's head mounted above the fireplace.
Rainsford sailing to Rio on the Zaroff's private yacht.
Please read the article on extreme social Darwinism posted on Google Classroom. When you are finished click on the appropriate option below, before continuing with the quiz.
You have 15 minutes before this quiz will continue automatically.
I have read the article as well as the side-notes added by Mr. Jordaan.
Psssh... I never follow instructions! It makes life more ... interesting. (Actually, seriously, don't pick this option, just read the article, please.)
The author of the article believes that this character is the "personification" of social Darwinism.
Rainsford
General Zaroff
Ivan the Cossack
Whitney
The following country all had eugenics programs
The USA
Canada
Several European countries
All of the other options
The motto of social Darwinists was
Survival of the fittest
No pain no gain
You can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs
What's good for the goose is good for the gander
Relates to matters of right and wrong
Ethos
Ether
Essence
Ethics
Do you think Rainsford was justified in killing General Zaroff
Yes - he had no choice.
No - there must have been some other way that did not involve killing.
I thought about the matter seriously, but I cannot make up my mind.
Do you think that Rainsford was justified in killing Ivan?
Yes - it was kill or be killed.
No - Rainsford could have come up with non-lethal traps, or some other method of escape that did not require killing.
I thought about the matter seriously, but I really can't make up my mind.
