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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. How does Rainsford end up alone on deck?
(a) The captain calls his partner below deck.
(b) His partner goes below deck to sleep.
(c) He and his partner argue, and his partner doesn't want to be around him for a while.
(d) His partner goes below deck to fetch a map to show Rainsford.

2. What is the first thing that Rainsford does once he is on top of the cliffs?
(a) Make a fire.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Hide.
(d) Yell for help.

3. When he is hiding in the tree, what does Rainsford suddenly realize?
(a) Zaroff does not really want to kill him.
(b) Zaroff is like a cat playing with a mouse before killing it.
(c) Zaroff is not playing the game by his own rules.
(d) Zaroff is not quite as good at tracking as he thinks.

4. What supplies does Zaroff offer the men he hunts?
(a) Rope, matches, and food.
(b) Food and a knife.
(c) A flashlight and a map.
(d) A map and matches.

5. Where are Rainsford and his partner headed?
(a) To South Africa.
(b) To Port Moresby.
(c) To Ecuador.
(d) To Rio.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of animals does Zaroff say are better than the people he hunts?

2. When Zaroff realizes that he is the one in danger and moves out of the way, to what does the narrator compare his quick movement?

3. 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?

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

5. Before Zaroff hunts people, what does he usually do with them?

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