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Answer 1

In "The Most Dangerous Game", General Zaroff has become a hunter of men because he is bored by animals. Which of the following passages BEST illustrates this?

A. "I was about to have my dinner when you came. I'll wait for you. You'll find that my clothes will fit you, I think."
B. "But there was one small trait of the general's that made Rainsford uncomfortable. Whenever he looked up from his plate he found the general studying him, appraising him narrowly."
C. Then he said slowly, "No. You are wrong, sir. The Cape buffalo is not the most dangerous big game." He sipped his wine. "Here in my preserve on this island," he said in the same slow tone, "I hunt more dangerous game."
D. "No animal had a chance with me any more. That is no boast; it is a mathematical certainty. The animal had nothing but his legs and his instinct. Instinct is no match for reason."

Answer 2

D

Answer 3

"The bed was good, and the pajamas of the softest silk, and he was tired in every fiber of his being, but nevertheless Rainsford could not quiet his brain with the opiate of sleep. He lay, eyes wide open. Once he thought he heard stealthy steps in the corridor outside his room. He sought to throw open the door; it would not open. He went to the window and looked out. His room was high up in one of the towers. The lights of the chateau were out now, and it was dark and silent; but there was a fragment of sallow moon, and by its wan light he could see, dimly, the courtyard. There, weaving in and out in the pattern of shadow, were black, noiseless forms; the hounds heard him at the window and looked up, expectantly, with their green eyes. Rainsford went back to the bed and lay down. By many methods he tried to put himself to sleep. He had achieved a doze when, just as morning began to come, he heard, far off in the jungle, the faint report of a pistol."


Overall, the setting described in this passage from "The Most Dangerous Game" is
A. colorful and pretty.
B. silent and peaceful.
C. noisy and crowded.
D. dark and eerie.

Answer 4

The title “The Most Dangerous Game” has a dual meaning, referring to both
A. playing chess and hunting animals.
B. the hunt and the humans who are hunted.
C. the general's words and his actions.
D. the human and the Cape buffalo.

Answer 5

D and B

Answer 6

"At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another, less spacious. Its walls had been lined with human remains, piled to the vault overhead, in the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris. Three sides of this interior crypt were still ornamented in this manner. From the fourth the bones had been thrown down, and lay promiscuously upon the earth, forming at one point a mound of some size. Within the wall thus exposed by the displacing of the bones we perceived a still interior recess, in depth about four feet, in width three, in height six or seven."


Edgar Allan Poe chose the underlined words to create an image of __________ in the reader's mind.
A. a casket
B. darkness
C. hell
D. murder

Answer 7

"At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another, less spacious. Its walls had been lined with human remains, piled to the vault overhead, in the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris. Three sides of this interior crypt were still ornamented in this manner. From the fourth the bones had been thrown down, and lay promiscuously upon the earth, forming at one point a mound of some size. Within the wall thus exposed by the displacing of the bones we perceived a still interior recess, in depth about four feet, in width three, in height six or seven."


The feeling of darkness in this passage from "Cask of Amontillado" is
A. palpable.
B. beleaguered.
C. redeeming.
D. promiscuous.