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The Most Dangerous Game
The Most Dangerous Game
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Grade 9 Quiz quizzing comprehension and literary devices used in the story.
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Questions
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1
...a terrible thought pushed its way into my mind. Hunting was beginning to bore me!
Internal Conflict
Irony
Theme
External Conflict
2
The climax of this story is when
Rainsford is being chased through the jungle
Ivan dies
Zaroff jumps off the cliff
Rainsford and Zaroff have a final battle in Zaroff's bedroom
3
What I felt was a--a mental chill: a sort of sudden dread.
Irony
Foreshadowing
Metaphor
Theme
4
Nerve! Nerve! Rainsford panted as he dashed along.
Setting
Direct Characterization
External Conflict
Internal Conflict
5
A
direct
comparison between unlike things (doesn't use like or as)
Simile
Symbol
Simple Imagery
Metaphor
6
...the dank tropical night pressed its thick warm blackness in upon the yacht
Simile and metaphor
Setting only
Descriptive imagery only
Setting and Personification
7
The feeling a passage, or an entire story, gives a reader
Foreshadowing
Mood
Theme
Irony
8
Didn't you notice that the crew's nerves seemed a bit jumpy today?
Metaphor
External Conflict
Theme
Foreshadowing
9
Gen. Zaroff is especially thrilled to hunt Rainsford because
Rainsford is America and Zaroff hates Americans
Rainsford made him mad when he called Zaroff uncivilized
Rainsford is an expert hunter
Zaroff is hungry and Rainsford looks particularly tasty
10
Message about life or human behavior that is suggested by a story
Foreshadowing
Mood
Irony
Theme
11
...the swish and ripple of the wash of the propeller
Simile
Foreshadowing
Metaphor
Simple Imagery
12
Who wins the game?
Ivan
Whitney
Rainsford
Zaroff
13
The weak of the world were put here to give the strong pleasure.
Irony
External Conflict
Simple Imagery
Theme
14
...the wash from the speeding yacht slapped him in the face and the salt water...made him gag.
Indirect Characterization and external conflict
Internal Conflict and metaphor
External Conflict and personification
Irony and imagery
15
The general whistles a tune from an opera as he hunts Rainsford.
Setting
Simple Imagery
Foreshadowing
Irony
16
Rainsford escapes Zaroff's hounds by
climbing a tree and hiding there
covering his scent with swamp mud
jumping off a cliff into the water
killing them with a Malay Mancatcher
17
When the opposite of what is expected is the thing that is, or the thing that occurs
Opposition
Conflict
Irony
Mood
18
...giant rocks with razor edges crouch like sea monsters.
Simple Imagery
Simile
Metaphor
Imagery and Simile
19
The lights of the yacht became faint and ever-vanishing fireflies
Simple Imagery
Irony
Simile
Metaphor
20
The time and place of a story
Mood
Setting
Imagery
Location
21
How does General Zaroff come to the island?
He was forced to flee there after committing crimes.
He invested after the war and was able to buy it.
He swam to it when his ship sank.
The story never says.
22
Words and phrases that appeal to the senses
Simile
Foreshadowing
Imagery
Metaphor
