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- 1. Multiple Choice
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
- 2. Multiple Choice
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."
- 3. Multiple Choice
Which literary devices are 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
- 4. Multiple Choice
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.'"
- 5. Multiple Choice
What is the inference the reader makes about the type of game the General 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.
- 6. Multiple Choice
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.'"
- 7. Multiple Choice
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.
- 8. Multiple Choice
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
- 9. Multiple Choice
The following is an example of what literary device? "The night was like moist black velvet."
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Foreshadowing
- 10. Multiple Choice
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
- 11. Multiple Choice
The following is an example of what type of figurative language? "The Cossack was the cat; Rainsford was the mouse."
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Foreshadowing
- 12. Multiple Choice
Zaroff emphasizes how civilized he is, yet his behavior is anything but civilized. What literary device is being used here?
Foreshadowing
Simile
Situational Irony
Metaphor
- 13. Multiple Choice
Which of the following literary devices is presented here?
"He lived a year in a minute."
imagery
simile
hyperbole
metaphor
- 14. Multiple Choice
Which quote from The Most Dangerous Game could be labeled as irony?
"The paddling sound of feet on the soft earth..."
"He lived a year in a minute..."
"The world famous game hunter was now being hunted as game himself..."
"The impulse to cry aloud with joy..."
- 15. Multiple ChoiceHow does the author create suspense at the beginning of the selection?He starts the story with dialogue, not descriptionHe 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.
- 16. Multiple Choice
What figurative device is: "The lights of the yacht became faint and ever-vanishing fireflies"?
metaphor
simile
personification
oxymoron
- 17. Multiple Choice
What figurative language device is: "the was from the speeding yacht slapped him in the face"?
metaphor
simile
personification
oxymoron
- 18. Multiple Choice
What figurative language device is: "the sea was as flat as a plate-glass window"?
metaphor
simile
personification
oxymoron
- 19. Multiple Choice
How does the General's appearance influence Rainsford's first impression?
Rainsford is confused by the man's attire
Rainsford thinks he is in the presence of a civilized man
Rainsford immediately is ill at-ease
Rainsford wonders why the General is dressed like a clown
- 20. Multiple Choice
Which of the following statements by General Zaroff adds to the suspense of the story?
"After the debacle in Russia I left the country, for it was imprudent for an officer to stay there."
"I was about to have my dinner when you came. I'll wait for you."
"I've read your book about hunting snow leopards in Tibet, you see."
"To date I have not lost."
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