1. Common Core sample questions

2. “The Most Dangerous Game”
Sample question #1:
Look for descriptive clues and/or words for the following characters:
Rainsford:
General Zaroff:
Ivan:
Use the text to support your answer.

3. “The Most Dangerous Game”
Sample question #2:
“It’s like moist black velvet.”- p.6
“What are the attributes of an ideal quarry?”- p.12
Look at both statements from the story. What does statement #1 resemble? How do you know this?
What is the answer to statement #2? Explain how you came to this conclusion.

4. “The Interlopers” Sample question #3:
Read the fable on page 156 and then answer this question: How does the ending of “ The Interlopers” differ from the fable, “The Trapper Trapped?” Explain your stance.

5. “The Interlopers” Sample question #4:
Look at the artwork on pages 151 and 155. What mood does painting one evoke (cause you to feel)? What is stressed in painting two (give specific examples)?

6. “The Necklace” Sample question #5:
List all the details about Mathilde that shows her “unhappiness”/ circumstances about being poor? Look at page 161.

7. “The Necklace” Sample question #6:
Read the excerpt on page 164, “Separate Spheres.” Pick three details the excerpt discusses about how society viewed women in both ends of the economic world during that time.