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

4. 1.
2.
3.
4.
Antagonist
Literary Terms
Protagonist
12. Suspense
Conflict
Plot--Rising action 13. Symbolism
& Falling action
14. Point of View
5. Climax
15. Imagery; Figurative
6. Denouement
Language
7. Exposition
8. Foreshadowing • There will be at least 10
questions on the test about
9. Irony
these terms.
10. Setting
• Sometimes the same
11. Theme
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."
This passage is
part of the (b) "The best sport in the world," agreed Rainsford.
______.
(c) "For the hunter," amended Whitney. "Not for the
jaguar."
A. setting
(d) "Don't talk rot, Whitney," said Rainsford. "You're a
B. Rising
big-game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares
action
how a jaguar feels?"
C. Climax
(e) "Perhaps the jaguar does," observed Whitney.
D. Falling
(f)“ Bah! They've no understanding."
action
(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.

6. Protagonist—
Sanger Rainsford

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

9. 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.
The sea,
the dogs,
the jungle,
the quicksand
General
Zaroff,
Whitney,
Ivan
Terror-- “I
must keep my
nerve. I must
keep my
nerve,” he
said through
tight teeth.

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
Which of the
sentences is an
example of
foreshadowing?
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
(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.

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
Ivan
Cossack
Sanger Rainsford
Whitney
Lazarus
Marcus Aurelius, Madama Butterfly, Chablis, filet
mignon…
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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
1.
"Nor four yards," remarked Rainsford, “Ugh, it’s like moist black
velvet.”
2.
"There was no breeze. The sea was as flat as a plate-glass
window.“
3.
“…giant rocks with razor edges crouch like a sea monster with
wide-open jaws”
4.
“An apprehensive night crawled slowly by like a wounded snake”
5.
The Cossack was the cat; he was the mouse.

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