Please read the excerpt from "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell and answer the questions that follow.
1 An apprehensive night crawled slowly by like a wounded snake and sleep did not visit
Rainsford, although the silence of a dead world was on the jungle. Toward morning when a
dingy gray was varnishing the sky, the cry of some startled bird focused Rainsford's attention
in that direction. Something was coming through the bush, coming slowly, carefully, coming
by the same winding way Rainsford had come. He flattened himself down on the limb and,
through a screen of leaves almost as thick as tapestry, he watched That which was
approaching was a man.
2 It was General Zaroff. He made his way along with his eyes fixed in utmost concentration
on the ground before him. He paused, almost beneath the tree, dropped to his knees and
studied the ground. Rainsford's impulse was to hurl himself down like a panther, but he saw
that the general's right hand held something metallic--a small automatic pistol.
3 The hunter shook his head several times, as if he were puzzled. Then he straightened up
and took from his case one of his black cigarettes; its pungent incenselike smoke floated up
to Rainsford's nostrils.
4 Rainsford held his breath. The general's eyes had left the ground and were traveling inch by
inch up the tree. Rainsford froze there, every muscle tensed for a spring. But the sharp eyes
of the hunter stopped before they reached the limb where Rainsford lay; a smile spread over
his brown face. Very deliberately he blew a smoke ring into the air; then he turned his back
on the tree and walked carelessly away, back along the trail he had come. The swish of the
underbrush against his hunting boots grew fainter and fainter.
5 The pent-up air burst hotly from Rainsford's lungs. His first thought made him feel sick and
numb. The general could follow a trail through the woods at night; he could follow an
extremely difficult trail; he must have uncanny powers; only by the merest chance had the
Cossack failed to see his quarry.
6 Rainsford's second thought was even more terrible. It sent a shudder of cold horror
through his whole being. Why had the general smiled? Why had he turned back?
7 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! The Cossack was the
cat; he was the mouse. Then it was that Rainsford knew the full meaning of terror.
Question 1 (2 points)
This passage is told in third-person point of view. As a result, which of the following
is true?
A. The narrator is an observer and not a character in the story.
B. The reader does not know what Rainsford is thinking.
C. The reader does not know what any of the characters are thinking,
D. The narrator is a character in the story