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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Pages 33-48.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes Rainsford a little uncomfortable about the General?
(a) Zaroff refuses to answer Rainsford's questions.
(b) Zaroff keeps staring at him.
(c) Zaroff keeps making strange jokes that Rainsford doesn't understand.
(d) Zaroff carries a pistol with him.

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

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

4. 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) Soft enough to be squeezed or manipulated.
(b) Able to be felt or touched.
(c) Warning of bad things to come.
(d) Dark and forbidding, gloomy.

5. On page 35, General Zaroff criticizes Rainsford's "scruples." What is he criticizing?
(a) Rainsford's hesitation to do something that he thinks is wrong.
(b) Rainsford's eagerness to condemn Zaroff's "game."
(c) Rainsford's anger on behalf of Zaroff's victims.
(d) Rainsford's religious beliefs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which character says, on page 31, "Instinct is no match for reason"?

3. When Rainsford insists on leaving the island, what is Zaroff's response?

4. On page 33, the narrator mentions that Zaroff has "surmounted" an obstacle. What has Zaroff done?

5. What does Zaroff believe fighting in the war should have taught Rainsford?

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