Short Story Final Assessment

Comprehension
The questions below refer to the selection “The Most Dangerous Game.”

____	1.	General Zaroff first comes to his island after —

____	2.	Rainsford comes to the island because he —

____	3.	What is Zaroff’s main reason for preferring to hunt human beings rather than animals? 

____	4.	Zaroff especially welcomes Rainsford because the general —

____	5.	Rainsford first realizes he is going to be the prey when —

____	6.	The best evidence that Zaroff is aware of his own viciousness and cruelty is that he —

____	7.	Which of the following statements best describes how Zaroff justifies his hunting of human     
                          beings? 

____	8.	Who is dead by the end of the story? 

____	9.	Rainsford finally gets the better of Zaroff when Rainsford —

____	10.	The main conflict in “The Most Dangerous Game” is between —
____	11.	The last sentence of the story is, “He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided.” 
                          What important piece of plot information does that sentence give you? 

____	12.	What is the first example of foreshadowing in the story? 

		____	13.	Foreshadowing is a —
		  
		“Lamb to the Slaughter”

		_____  14.      How would you best describe Mary Maloney’s character based on the exposition? 

____	15.	How would you best describe the initial mood of “Lamb to the Slaughter”? 

____	17.	What is the best possible theme from “Lamb to the Slaughter”? 

____	18.	The climax of “Lamb to the Slaughter” is 

____	19.	The main conflict of “Lamb to the Slaughter” 

____	20.	An example of situational irony is

____	21.	What is the significance of the setting in “Lamb to the Slaughter”? 

“The Interlopers”

____	22.	The conflict between Ulrich Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym is over —

____	23.	At the beginning of the story, Ulrich is--
____	24.	When the two men meet, they —

____	25.	As the men talk, —

____	26.	Gradwitz and Znaeym agree to —

____	27.	When the men see figures in the distance, the men assume that they —

____	28.	This story is mainly about a —

____	29.	Describe the irony in the fact that the two men hesitated to pull the trigger--

____	30.	Which term best describes the story’s ending? 

____	31.	Describe the situational irony in the resolution.

“The Scarlet Ibis”

____	32.	Most of the action of this story takes place in--

____	33.	What does William Armstrong do to earn his nickname? Why is the name ironic?

____	34.	The narrator pulls Doodle in a cart because —

____	35.	The central conflict in “The Scarlet Ibis” comes from the narrator’s inability to accept his —

____	36.	When the narrator teaches Doodle to walk, the narrator believes that he--

____	37.	During the story, Doodle is terrified of what?

____	38.	One example of the narrator’s cruelty to his brother is when the narrator —

____	39.	What figurative language is each of the following?
		a.  “The last graveyard flowers were blooming,…, speaking softly the names of our dead.”
		b.  “…where the palmetto fronds whispered by the stream.”
		c.  “…it was spring and the sick-sweet smell of bay flowers hung everywhere like a mournful
		     song.”
		d.  “…our laughter pealing through the swamp like a ringing bell.”
		e.  “Success lay at the end of summer like a pot of gold.”
		f.  “…the crops withered, curled up, then died under the thirsty sun.”
		g.  The hurricane blew the fallen oaks and tore their roots out of the earth “like a hawk at the 
		     entrails of a chicken.”
		h.  “We decided to double our efforts, to make that last drive and reach our pot of gold.”
		i.  “It was too late to turn back, for we had both wandered too far into a net of expectations \
		    and had left no crumbs behind.”
		j.  “…for it lay on the earth like a broken vase of red flowers”

____	40.	From the way Doodle buries the ibis, you can infer that Doodle —

____	41.	When the two brothers race home to beat the storm, Doodle —
____	42.	Which event best symbolizes Doodle’s fate? 

____	43.	The terrible storm could be a symbol for —

____	44.	What might the war symbolize in “The Scarlet Ibis”? 

“The Interlopers.”

____	45.	The omniscient point of view can best be described as —

____	46.	The author selected this viewpoint to —

____	47.	The narrator’s voice is best described as —

____	48.	What tone is created by the narrator’s voice in this story? 

Give the term

____	49.	The villain of a story.

____	50.	The steps characters take to overcome their conflicts.

____	51.	The good character.  The character we hope to see succeed.

____	52.	When the main conflict comes to its peak.
____	53.	A character that undergoes a change. 
____	54.	When a character says something but means the opposite.

____	55.	The difference between what we expect and what we get.

____	56.	When the audience knows something the characters do not.
____	57.	When an outcome is totally unexpected. 
____	58.	The methods (direct and indirect) authors use to acquaint audiences with their characters.

____	59.	The time and place of a story.

____	60.	When an object stands for something beyond its literal self.

____	61.	The central idea, or main message, or a story.
____	62.	An “All Knowing” narrator.  He/she can get into the mind of any character.

____	63.	The perspective in which the story is told.

____	64.	The narrator is in the story and telling it from his/her perspective.

____	65.	The narrator is not in the story and the focus on one character.