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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Pages 49-66.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the result of Rainsford's pit trap?
(a) Rainsford himself falls into the trap.
(b) Zaroff's servant is killed.
(c) One of Zaroff's dogs is killed.
(d) Zaroff is seriously wounded.

2. Who is Rainsford's hunting partner?
(a) Ivan.
(b) Sanger.
(c) Neilsen.
(d) Whitney.

3. What does Zaroff say is the problem with ordinary big-game hunting?
(a) There are too many other great hunters in the world.
(b) It wastes the life of an animal for no purpose.
(c) It does not take the feelings of the prey animal into account.
(d) The prey animal has almost no chance of survival.

4. On page 33, the narrator mentions that Zaroff has "surmounted" an obstacle. What has Zaroff done?
(a) Given up because of an obstacle.
(b) Overcome an obstacle.
(c) Avoided an obstacle.
(d) Created an obstacle.

5. What does Zaroff do if one of his victims is close to winning the game?
(a) He cheats by going back to the house for better weapons.
(b) He just extends the time period that they have to survive through.
(c) He uses dogs to hunt them.
(d) He tricks them into thinking they have won and then kills them anyway.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the significance of the two trees, where one is leaning on the other?

2. If someone refuses to participate in Zaroff's hunting game, what does he do?

3. What kind of people does Rainsford guess might live on the island?

4. On page 50, Rainsford thinks of General Zaroff as "zealous." What kind of a person does this mean General Zaroff is?

5. On page 59, Rainsford's waiting is described with the phrase "He lived a year in a minute." What literary technique is being used here?

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