3. “The Most Dangerous Game” Test Review
Here’s What you Can Expect
Plot Questions
Literary Terms Questions
MDG Vocabulary

4. Literary Terms Antagonist Protagonist Conflict
Plot—Exposition, Rising action , climax, Falling action, Resolution
Denouement
Foreshadowing
Irony
Setting
Theme
Literary Terms
10. Suspense 11. Symbolism 12. Point of View 13. Imagery; Figurative Language 14. Characterization
There will be at least 10 questions on the test about these terms.
Sometimes the same passage maybe used for different questions.

5. Literary Terms
(a) "We should make it in a few days. I hope the jaguar guns have come from Purdey's. We should have some good hunting up the Amazon. Great sport, hunting." (b) "The best sport in the world," agreed Rainsford. (c) "For the hunter," amended Whitney. "Not for the jaguar." (d) "Don't talk rot, Whitney," said Rainsford. "You're a big-game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares how a jaguar feels?" (e) "Perhaps the jaguar does," observed Whitney. (f)“ Bah! They've no understanding." (g)“ Even so, I rather think they understand one thing--fear. The fear of pain and the fear of death." (h) "Nonsense," laughed Rainsford. "This hot weather is making you soft, Whitney. Be a realist. The world is made up of two classes--the hunters and the hunted. Luckily, you and I are hunters.
This passage is part of the ______. A. setting B. Rising action C. Climax D. Falling action

6. Protagonist—
Sanger Rainsford

8. Main Antagonist:
General Zaroff
Other Antagonists—
The Caribbean Sea
Ivan
The Jungle
Fear
The dogs

9. General Zaroff, Whitney, Ivan
A conflict is a struggle between two people, between a person and nature, or between two different sides of the same person.
Use this chart to explain each different type of conflict in the story.
Terror-- “I must keep my nerve. I must keep my nerve,” he said through tight teeth.
The sea,
the dogs,
the jungle,
the quicksand
General Zaroff, Whitney, Ivan

10. Main Conflict—
Man v. man

11. Climaxes Rainsford refuses to hunt with Zaroff and becomes the hunted.
Rainsford hides in the tree.
Rainsford makes the Malay Man Trap.
Rainsford builds the Burmese tiger pit.
Rainsford is cornered and leaps from the cliff.
**Rainsford confronts Zaroff.
Twenty feet below him the sea rumbled and hissed. Rainsford hesitated. He heard the hounds. Then he leaped far out into the sea….

12. Denouement
“He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided.”

13. Exposition The myth of Ship Trap Island Rainsford’s hunting background
Zaroff’s hunting background
Ivan’s background--Cossack
The rules of the game

14. Foreshadowing “We were drawing near the island then.
What I felt was a—a mental chill; a sort of sudden dread.”
“Somewhere, off in the blackness, someone had fired a gun three times.”
“I’ve read your book about hunting snow leopards
in Tibet, you see,” explained the man. “I am General Zaroff.”
“That Cape buffalo …was a monster...Hurled me against a tree,” said the general. “Fractured my skull. But I got the brute.”
 I drink to a foeman worthy of my steel—at last.”

15. Literary Terms
(a) "We should make it in a few days. I hope the jaguar guns have come from Purdey's. We should have some good hunting up the Amazon. Great sport, hunting." (b) "The best sport in the world," agreed Rainsford. (c) "For the hunter," amended Whitney. "Not for the jaguar." (d) "Don't talk rot, Whitney," said Rainsford. "You're a big-game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares how a jaguar feels?" (e) "Perhaps the jaguar does," observed Whitney. (f)“ Bah! They've no understanding." (g)“ Even so, I rather think they understand one thing--fear. The fear of pain and the fear of death." (h) "Nonsense," laughed Rainsford. "This hot weather is making you soft, Whitney. Be a realist. The world is made up of two classes--the hunters and the hunted. Luckily, you and I are hunters.
Which of the sentences is an example of foreshadowing? A B C D E F G H

18. Point of view Third person, author limited to Rainsford:
“Rainsford did not want to believe what his reason told him was true, but the truth was as evident as the sun that had by now pushed through the morning mists. The general was playing with him! The general was saving him for another day’s sport!”

19. Setting The yacht in the Caribbean
Zaroff’s palatial mansion on Ship Trap Island
Death Swamp

20. Symbolism General Zaroff Ivan Game Death Swamp Cossack
Sanger Rainsford
Whitney
Lazarus
Marcus Aurelius, Madama Butterfly, Chablis, filet mignon…

21. “And now,” said the general, “I want to show you my new collection of heads. Will you come with me to the library?”

22. Suspense
Suspense is the curiosity and excitement you feel when you are reading or watching a movie and you wonder what will happen next. Writers often create suspense by putting characters in dangerous situations. For example, the following passage from “The Most Dangerous Game” makes you wonder what will happen next. “For a seemingly endless time he fought the sea. He began to count his strokes; he could do possibly a hundred more and then—”

23. Theme “Thou Shalt not Kill.” What is the most dangerous game?
“I’m a hunter, not a murderer.”
We try to be civilized here.”

25. Literary Terms: Figurative Language
Imagery Personification Simile Metaphor
"Nor four yards," remarked Rainsford, “Ugh, it’s like moist black velvet.”
"There was no breeze. The sea was as flat as a plate-glass window.“
“…giant rocks with razor edges crouch like a sea monster with wide-open jaws”
“An apprehensive night crawled slowly by like a wounded snake” 
The Cossack was the cat; he was the mouse. 

26. “The Most Dangerous Game”
Key Vocabulary Words
Condone – to forgive or overlook
Cultivated – refine or cultured manner
Quarry – the object of a hunt
Scruple – a feeling of uneasiness that keeps a person from doing something
Solicitously-in a manner of expressing concern
Tangible- capable of being touched or felt
Zealous- intensely enthusiastic