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Name______________________English Period_____“The Most Dangerous Game” Open Book/Short Answer Scavenger Hunt___________/___________ 1. The two characters conversing at the beginning of the story______________________ 2. Name of island______________________ 3. Animal that Rainsford can “pick off at four hundred yards”______________________ 4. Name of the sea where they are presently sailing______________________ 5. The next big game they are going to hunt______________________ 6. Identify the figurative language: The night “is like moist black velvet.”___________/___________ 7. The two fears that Whitney says an animal feels___________/___________ 8. Rainsford says the world is made up of these two classes of people______________________ 9. “Even _________ wouldn’t live in such a Godforsaken place.”______________________10. This type of sailor “can taint the whole ship’s company with his fear.”______________________11. Whitney goes to bed, but Rainsford goes “up on the __________.” ______________________12. Rainsford hears three of these “off to the right … off in the blackness.”______________________13. Rainsford falls overboard while trying to grab his ________.______________________14. How many people know he has fallen overboard?______________________15. Identify the figurative language: “… he struck out with strong strokes.”______________________16. Identify the figurative language: “The lights became ever vanishing fireflies.”___________/___________17. Rainsford hears a scream “of an animal in an extremity of _____ and _____.”______________________18. Identify the figurative language: “… the muttering and growling of the sea…”______________________19. Rainsford first thinks the huge house is a village “for there were many _____.” ______________________20. The number of times Rainsford thinks the door knocker has been used___________/___________21. The two most prominent physical traits about the man who answers the door___________/___________22. Zaroff has read Rainsford’s “book about hunting snow _______ in ______.”______________________23. Zaroff is “singularly handsome,” but has an “almost ___ quality about his face.” ______________________24. The race of Russians known for their horsemanship, courage and fierceness ______________________25. These things adorn Zaroff’s dining room__________/____________26. Zaroff’s age when he receives his first gun/the “prize” birds he shoots______________________27. Zaroff wants an “animal” with this quality to hunt______________________28. Rainsford’s reaction to Zaroff’s new quarry_____/___________/_____29. # of hours headstart/weapon given to the quarry/# of days the game lasts ______________________30. Zaroff wants another day of hunting; R. compares himself to this small animal ______________________31. This hunting trick injures Zaroff’s shoulder______________________32. This hunting trick kills one of Zaroff’s best dogs___________/___________33. Rainsford lives when he jumps ____ feet into the sea; Rainsford returns, hides behind the ________, then surprises Zaroff , kills him and sleeps in his bed. ................
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