Question

Part A

What does the interaction between Rainsford and General Zaroff reveal about Rainsford’s attitude toward Zaroff?

He believes Zaroff’s behavior is inhumane.

He questions Zaroff’s sanity.

He is afraid of Zaroff’s lack of self-control.

He is in awe of Zaroff’s power.
Part B

How does Rainsford’s attitude advance the plot of this passage?

He realizes being the hunted offers a chance for survival.

He knows Zaroff is unpredictable.

He thinks Zaroff likes to play games.

He understands that he is expected to go hunting.

Answer 1

excerpt from "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell

Rainsford went to the window and looked out toward the sea.

“Watch! Out there!” exclaimed the general, pointing into the night. Rainsford’s eyes saw only blackness, and then, as the general pressed a button, far out to sea Rainsford saw the flash of lights.

The general chuckled. “They indicate a channel,” he said, “where there’s none: giant rocks with razor edges crouch like a sea monster with wide-open jaws. They can crush a ship as easily as I crush this nut.” He dropped a walnut on the hardwood floor and brought his heel grinding down on it. “Oh, yes,” he said, casually, as if in answer to a question, “I have electricity. We try to be civilized here.”

“Civilized? And you shoot down men?”

A trace of anger was in the general’s black eyes, but it was there for but a second; and he said, in his most pleasant manner, “Dear me, what a righteous young man you are! I assure you I do not do the thing you suggest. That would be barbarous. I treat these visitors with every consideration. They get plenty of good food and exercise. They get into splendid physical condition. You shall see for yourself tomorrow.”

“What do you mean?”

“We’ll visit my training school,” smiled the general. “It’s in the cellar. I have about a dozen pupils down there now. They’re from the Spanish bark, ‘San Lucar,’ that had the bad luck to go on the rocks out there. A very inferior lot, I regret to say. Poor specimens and more accustomed to the deck than to the jungle.”

He raised his hand, and Ivan, who served as waiter, brought thick Turkish coffee. Rainsford, with an effort, held his tongue in check.

“It’s a game, you see,” pursued the general blandly. “I suggest to one of them that we go hunting. I give him a supply of food and an excellent hunting knife. I give him three hours’ start. I am to follow, armed only with a pistol of the smallest caliber and range. If my quarry eludes me for three whole days, he wins the game. If I find him,” the general smiled, “he loses.”

“Suppose he refuses to be hunted?”

“Oh,” said the general, “I give him his option, of course. He need not play that game if he doesn’t wish to. If he does not wish to hunt, I turn him over to Ivan. Ivan once had the honor of serving as official knouter to the Great White Czar, and he has his own ideas of sport. Invariably, Mr. Rainsford, invariably they choose the hunt.”

“And if they win?”

The smile on the general’s face widened. “To date I have not lost,” he said.

Answer 2

@mhchen

Answer 3

@HuskyNation

Answer 4

@Elsa213 @Allison

Answer 5

@lyrical

Answer 6

@Shadow

Answer 7

i just did story yesterday

Answer 8

I'm doing my Geography right now, I can't help atm. >.<

@Ultrilliam if he has time. Or @AnimeLuver10023

Answer 9

jay doesnt english

Answer 10

He does sometimes lol. Rarely, doe.

Answer 11

@kaylak can probably help. o:

Answer 12

(s)he didnt help tho o:

Answer 13

to long e.e sorry i am doing US History if it was short i would help tho

Answer 14

@Angle @Shadow

Answer 15

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Answer 16

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Answer 18

lol

Answer 19

x'D

Answer 20

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Answer 22

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Answer 23

i am done i don't wanna spam ;-;

Answer 24

^

Answer 25

But now everyone knows the answers :D

Answer 26

I agree with your choice for the first question, for the second question it can be debatable.

Answer 27

what do you think it could be?

Answer 28

I read roughly half of the story when we last discussed this. Based on what I read, it sounded like Rainsford was coming to understand that this was a chance at survival. His questions regarding the hunt could be perceived as inquiries into this mysterious hunt, but also as a man searching for his chances of survival.

Additionally, he may have been asking those questions, as he came to the understanding that he was expected to hunt.

The question "Suppose he refuses to be hunted?" especially supports this, as well as “And if they win?”

Answer 29

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Answer 30

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Answer 31

My two suggestions, plus yours could all be true. The question is:

How does Rainsford’s attitude advance the plot of this passage?

Which of those would "advance" the plot?

Answer 32

With that, I would put it in-between A and D, as the hunt did eventually end up happening next in the plot.

Answer 33

so what is part b?

Answer 34

@Shadow

Answer 35

I like A for Part B. Of course he understands that he is expected to go hunting, but he could easily choose the route of Ivan. It is that fact that him realizing that " being the hunted offers a chance for survival" advances the plot towards the hunt occurring.

Answer 36

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Answer 37

He wanted to survive. His chances were also better than others due to his hunting background.

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