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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 do Rainsford and his partner disagree about?
(a) Which of them is more courageous.
(b) Which of them is the better hunter.
(c) Whether animals feel fear.
(d) Whether hunting intelligent animals is ethical.

2. Which is the best description of Rainsford when he is in the water?
(a) He is shocked at first but stays calm and thinks his situation through.
(b) He is overconfident and thinks that nothing can harm him.
(c) He thinks the situation is amusing at first but rapidly realizes that it is serious.
(d) He panics and then is embarrassed because he is well-known for his courage.

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 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.

4. Why did Zaroff go into the army?
(a) It was the only way to get away from his father.
(b) It was expected for noblemen's sons to do so.
(c) He believed deeply in the Russian cause.
(d) He wanted to have an excuse to kill humans.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which animal does Rainsford call the most dangerous?

2. What does Zaroff imply he was afraid of when he realized that hunting had begun to bore him?

3. When Zaroff says, on page 31, that there is "no greater bore than perfection," to what is he referring?

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

5. What explanation does Zaroff give for his servant's not speaking to Rainsford?

(see the answer key)

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