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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Pages 16-32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 does not take the feelings of the prey animal into account.
(c) It wastes the life of an animal for no purpose.
(d) The prey animal has almost no chance of survival.

2. What does Zaroff imply he was afraid of when he realized that hunting had begun to bore him?
(a) Having to go home to Russia.
(b) That he was becoming weak and soft-hearted.
(c) Having a breakdown.
(d) That he was becoming a coward.

3. 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) Able to be felt or touched.
(c) Dark and forbidding, gloomy.
(d) Soft enough to be squeezed or manipulated.

4. What is surprising about General Zaroff's first remarks to Rainsford?
(a) He already knows Rainsford's name.
(b) His accent is clearly not Russian.
(c) He seems to find Rainsford's situation very amusing.
(d) He seems to have been expecting Rainsford.

5. Which word best describes the inside of Zaroff's house?
(a) Stark.
(b) Cozy.
(c) Forbidding.
(d) Luxurious.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rainsford have difficulty seeing the island from the ship?

2. What reason does Whitney give Rainsford for the sailors' fear of the island?

3. Which is the best description of Rainsford when he is in the water?

4. What does Zaroff tell Rainsford he lives for?

5. Which word does the narrator use to describe General Zaroff's home?

(see the answer key)

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