"The world is made up of two classes--the hunters and the huntees. Luckily, you and I are hunters." Who says this, and what does it show about him?

"Thank you, I'm a hunter, not a murderer." Who says this, and what is he refusing?

"I refuse to believe that so modern and civilized a young man as you seem to be harbors romantic ideas about the value of human life." Who says this at dinner, and what does it show?

"Instinct is no match for reason." Who says this, and what point is he making?

In the bedroom Zaroff congratulates Rainsford on winning the game, and Rainsford answers, "I am still a beast at bay." What is he telling the general?

Rainsford builds three traps during the hunt. Which one does Zaroff meet FIRST?

Rainsford digs the Burmese tiger pit close to which part of the island?

On the first night of the hunt, after doubling on his trail again and again like a fox, what does Rainsford do?

Which of these happens LAST during the hunt?

At daybreak Rainsford wakes to the baying of the pack. He rejects both waiting and simple flight. What does he do instead?

On the first morning Zaroff follows Rainsford's looping trail to the very tree he is lying in, studies the ground, blows a smoke ring, smiles, and walks away without firing. Why?

Zaroff hunts armed only with "a pistol of the smallest caliber and range," though he owns high-powered rifles. Why does he handicap himself?

Zaroff says his captives may refuse to be hunted, yet, as he puts it, "invariably they choose the hunt." Why do they?

Alone on the after deck, Rainsford hears a gun fired three times off in the blackness and leaps up onto the yacht's rail. Why does he get up there?

As the yacht neared the island Whitney felt "a--a mental chill; a sort of sudden dread." How does Whitney himself explain that feeling?

The story opens with two hunters on a yacht arguing over whether a jaguar can feel fear, and later has one of them fleeing a pack of hounds through the jungle. What is that reversal called?

Before Rainsford ever reaches land, Whitney says sailors have "a curious dread of the place" and that the old charts call it Ship-Trap Island. What is Connell doing here?

Connell describes the hunt this way: "The Cossack was the cat; he was the mouse." Name the technique.

Rainsford hears the pit's cover break and a scream of pain, leaps up in joy, then cowers back: a man is standing three feet from the pit with an electric torch. Why does Connell stage it this way?

The story ends with one short sentence: "He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided." Name what Connell is doing with that ending.

Which statement about the last night of the story is NOT true?

Which statement about General Zaroff is NOT true?

Which statement about Ivan is NOT true?

Which statement about the opening scene on the yacht is NOT true?

Which statement about the terms Zaroff sets for the hunt is NOT true?