Which sentence from the story best supports the answer to question 7 The Most Dangerous Game

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“The Most Dangerous Game” Questions

Answer the following questions in complete sentences on a separate sheet of paper. Be sure to support your answers with specific evidence from the text and explain how this evidence supports your claim.

1. What does Rainsford say are the two classes of which the world consists? What is his attitude at this point? How do his words become realized in the story?

2. Why does Zaroff become bored with hunting? What actions does he take to regain this interest? Why does he choose this animal?

3. Why does Rainsford excuse himself from seeing the library saying he feels ill?

4. Zaroff states on page 173: “Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong, and, if need, taken by the strong. The weak of the world were put here to give the strong pleasure. I am strong.” What do his words reveal about Zaroff? What does he believe is the rights of people to have control of their lives?

5. What different meanings does the word “game” have in the story? What different meanings might the title of the story have?

6. The concept of being an animal is very prevalent in this story. In what ways does Rainsford behave like an animal and as a human? How does Zaroff? Does this change during the game; if so how? Which characteristic is most evident in each man?

7. Irony is the name given to literary techniques that involve a surprising, interesting, or amusing difference between appearance and reality; in other words a contradiction. There are three types.

Verbal irony uses words to suggest the opposite of their usual meaning. Dramatic Irony uses a contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader or audience knows to be true. Situational irony is an event occurs that directly contradicts the expectations of the character, reader, or audience.

Look at the three different examples from the story below. Determine what

type of irony each uses and explain why.

· Zaroff states that “We do our best to preserve civilization here.”

· Rainsford survives for three days by swimming to shore, evading Zaroff and winning

the “game.”

· Rainsford believes that Zaroff wants to hunt with him, although there have been

numerous clues in the text that Zaroff wants to hunt Rainsford