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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the result of Rainsford's final trap?
(a) The general's servant is killed.
(b) The general is stabbed in the shoulder.
(c) Rainsford loses his knife without accomplishing anything.
(d) The general's favorite dog is killed.

2. On what does Zaroff blame Rainsford's refusal to participate in murder?
(a) Rainsford's more cautious upbringing.
(b) Rainsford's not being a Russian.
(c) His experiences as a soldier.
(d) America's Puritan ancestry.

3. What is it implied that Zaroff keeps in his library?
(a) Souvenirs from the war.
(b) The keys to his boat.
(c) Chloroform.
(d) Human heads.

4. If someone refuses to participate in Zaroff's hunting game, what does he do?
(a) Shoots them immediately.
(b) Makes them fight his servant to the death.
(c) Gives them to his servant to be whipped to death.
(d) Sets them adrift at sea.

5. What is Zaroff's response to being wounded by Rainsford?
(a) He moans.
(b) He laughs.
(c) He stares silently toward Rainsford's hiding place.
(d) He yells.

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

7. How does Zaroff obtain his victims?
(a) He has a false channel light that lures ships onto the rocks.
(b) He has artillery that he fires on passing ships, hoping to sink them.
(c) He advertises for people to come work on his island.
(d) He and his servant capture them on the mainland.

8. What does Zaroff do if one of his victims is close to winning the game?
(a) He cheats by going back to the house for better weapons.
(b) He uses dogs to hunt them.
(c) He just extends the time period that they have to survive through.
(d) He tricks them into thinking they have won and then kills them anyway.

9. 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?
(a) Simile.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Hyperbole.

10. On page 38, Zaroff calls something that Rainsford says "barbarous." What does this word mean in this context?
(a) Ridiculous.
(b) Willfully ignorant.
(c) Cruel and uncivilized.
(d) Unimaginative.

11. What is in General Zaroff's cellar?
(a) A torture chamber.
(b) The bodies of the men he has killed.
(c) The dogs' kennels.
(d) His "training camp."

12. What animal does Rainsford try to think like during the first day of being hunted?
(a) A jaguar.
(b) A fox.
(c) A tiger.
(d) A Cape buffalo.

13. On page 35, Zaroff says that Rainsford's attitude is "like finding a snuffbox in a limousine." What does he mean by this?
(a) That Rainsford's attitude is old-fashioned and out of place in the modern world.
(b) That Rainsford's attitude is unpleasant and not particularly safe.
(c) That Rainsford's attitude is charming but too delicate to survive.
(d) That Rainsford's attitude is fussy and somewhat embarrassing.

14. What spot on the island does Zaroff warn Rainsford to stay away from?
(a) The caves.
(b) The swamp.
(c) The cliffs.
(d) The river.

15. How much of a head start does Zaroff offer his victims?
(a) 1/2 day.
(b) 3 hours.
(c) 1 hour.
(d) 1 day.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Zaroff use frequently to describe his life on the island?

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

3. Into what two groups does Zaroff divide up the world?

4. When Rainsford is waiting in the tree, to whom does he compare Zaroff?

5. On page 35, Zaroff says that Rainsford's attitude is "like finding a snuffbox in a limousine." What rhetorical technique is he employing?

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