Story Elements
What is the setting of a story?
Where and when the story takes place
Who is the protagonist of MDG and who is the antagonist of MDG?
Protagonist - Rainsford
Antagonist - Zaroff
What is the main conflict of MDG?
Zaroff is hunting Rainsford
What is a conjunction?
A word that joins words, phrases, or clauses (ideas)
Why does Zaroff believe that hunting humans is the most dangerous game? What makes them dangerous?
Their intelligence and ability to reason
Which plot element is the introduction of characters and setting?
Exposition
What is the "game" that Zaroff invents?
He hunts human beings - sailors he has lured to the island
Rainsford appears in Zaroff's bedroom and kills him
What is the difference between adjectives and adverbs?
Adjectives describe nouns and adverbs describe verbs
In "The Most Dangerous Game," why does Zaroff feel his game is not immoral?
He believes that the weak exist to give pleasure to the strong
What plot element is the events that build conflict leading up to the climax?
Rising Action
In MDG what does Zaroff at first say he wants Rainsford to do?
Join in on the next hunt
In MDG, which character's INTERNAL conflicts contribute most to the story's action and its effect on the reader?
Rainsford
Identify the subject (noun) and action (verb) of the sentence below
Rainsford survived being hunted by Zaroff.
Subject - Rainsford
Action - Survived
How does the author create suspense at the beginning of "The Most Dangerous Game"?
He has Whitney describe the mysterious reputation of the island they are passing
What plot event is the high intensity/turning point of the conflict?
Climax
What is the climax of MDG?
When Rainsford swims across the sea and surprises Zaroff in his bedroom.
In MDG is General Zaroff's problem before he invents his "game"?
He cares only for hunting, but hunting has begun to bore him
Identify ONE adjective and ONE adverb in this sentence from "The Most Dangerous Game".
For a seemingly endless time he fought the sea.
Adjective - endless
Adverb - seemingly
In MDG After it is revealed that Zaroff hunts humans, Rainsford calls that murder, asks to go to bed because he feels sick, and struggles to get to sleep.
What is an inference you can make based on this information?
Rainsford is struggling with Zaroff's idea of hunting humans and how it relates to his earlier belief about the 2 classes of beings in the world.
What plot element is the conclusion of story where conflict is resolved?
Resolution
Put the following events in the correct order that they happen in the story
1. Rainsford falls overboard
2. Rainsford's trap kills Ivan
3. Rainsford leaps into the sea
4. Rainsford sleeps in Zaroff's bed
Which factor contributes most to Zaroff's defeat at Rainsford's hands?
Zaroff's overconfidence
Identify ONE adjective and ONE adverb in this sentence from "The Most Dangerous Game".
"Three hundred yards from his hiding place he stopped where a huge dead tree leaned precariously on a smaller, living one."
Adjective - huge, dead, smaller, living
Adverb - precariously
In MDG, Zaroff tells Rainsford that his visitors always choose to participate in the hunt rather than face Ivan. What can you infer from this remark?
The visitors would rather take their chances in the hunt than be tortured.
Ivan is aggressive and mean.