Plot
Which of the following is NOT part of the rising action?
a.) When Rainsford meets Ivan at the door to Zaroff's home.
b.) When Rainsford sets traps in the woods for Zaroff.
c.) When Rainsford gets to sleep in Zaroff's bed.
What is c.) When Rainsford gets to sleep in Zaroff's bed.
What type of mood does the author set in the exposition?
What is mysterious and uneasy.
Who is the protagonist, and who is the antagonist of the story?
What is the protagonist is Rainsford and the antagonist is Zaroff.
How many traps does Rainsford set for Zaroff in the woods?
What is three.
What does the inciting incident of any story do?
a.) It creates the most suspense
b.) It allows for new characters to come into the story
c.) It introduces the protagonist to the plot-forwarding conflict
What is c.) It introduces the protagonist to the plot-forwarding conflict.
What is the inciting incident of the story?
What is when Rainsford falls off the yacht.
What name does Whitney say that foreshadows the main part of the story?
What is Ship-Trap Island.
What is Zaroff is round and static.
Name at least one of the traps that Rainsford sets for Zaroff.
What is The Malay Mancatcher, the Burmese Tiger Trap, or the Ugandan Spring Trap.
____ vs. ____ is the main conflict of the story.
What is man vs. man. (Also called person vs. person or character vs. character)
What is the one main piece of falling action of the story?
What is when Zaroff and Rainsford fight after Rainsford sneaks into Zaroff's house at night.
Rainsford's dismissal of animals having feeling while being hunted is an example of foreshadowing and what other literary device?
What is irony.
Describe Ivan as round or flat and static or dynamic.
What is Ivan is flat and static.
Where does Rainsford learn his trap-making skills?
What is the war (most likely WWI).
What does Zaroff consider to be "the most dangerous game"?
What are humans.
What is the exposition of the story? (Time, place, background info, characters)
What is nighttime in the Caribbean sea where rich hunters, Whitney and Rainsford, are heading to the Amazon forest to hunt large, dangerous game.
What type of irony is expressed when Rainsford jumps off of the cliff to escape Zaroff?
What is situational irony.
Describe why Rainsford can be considered a dynamic character.
What is Rainsford changes his belief that animals lack the capacity to feel emotions like fear.
Who does the Malay Mancatcher trap injure?
Who is Zaroff.
What two things does Rainsford find while first being washed up on Ship-Trap Island?
What are a trail of blood and an empty cartridge.
What is the climax of "The Most Dangerous Game"?
What is when Rainsford jumps off the cliff to escape General Zaroff.
Which of the following could best be a theme of the story?
a.) The thin line between the hunter and the hunted
b.) The dangers of unchecked powers and privilege
c.) The moral superiority of intelligence over violence
What is a.) The thin line between the hunter and the hunted.
How does Rainsford's transformation affect the overall theme of the story?
What is it shows that surviving something terrifying changes your perspective about people or things.
Who is Ivan by the knife at the end of the springing tree springing up and stabbing him.
How is survival of the fittest shown throughout this story?
What is by showing how people can dominate other people or species with intellect.