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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: Pages 1-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which word does the narrator use to describe General Zaroff's home?
(a) Palatial.
(b) Fanciful.
(c) Grotesque.
(d) Foreboding.

2. On page 1, the narrator says that the night "was palpable as it pressed its thick warm blackness in upon the yacht." What does "palpable" mean in this context?
(a) Warning of bad things to come.
(b) Soft enough to be squeezed or manipulated.
(c) Able to be felt or touched.
(d) Dark and forbidding, gloomy.

3. On page 1, the narrator says that the night "was palpable as it pressed its thick warm blackness in upon the yacht." What literary technique is being employed in this phrase?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Parallelism.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Personification.

4. What kind of people does Rainsford guess might live on the island?
(a) Missing sailors.
(b) Cannibals.
(c) War criminals.
(d) Hunters.

5. When, on page 7, Rainsford "indolently [puffs] on his favorite brier," what is he doing?
(a) Vigorously smoking a pipe.
(b) Eagerly smoking a cigarette.
(c) Thoughtfully smoking a cigarette.
(d) Lazily smoking a pipe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Rainsford's first reaction when he falls overboard?

2. On page 5, evil is described as "tangible." What would this mean is true about evil?

3. On page 1, the night is described as "dank." In this context, what does this word mean?

4. Where are Rainsford and his partner headed?

5. As Rainsford nears the island, what does he hear?

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