Read the excerpt from the canterbury tales.

in flanders there was once a company of youngsters wedded to such sin and folly as gaming, dicing, brothels, and taverns, where, night and day, with harps, lutes, and citherns, they spend their time in dicing and in dancing, eating and drinking more than they can carry; and with these abominable excesses they offer up the vilest sacrifices . .

which word best characterizes the young people in this passage?

a. humble
b. nervous
c. sensitive
d. immoral

The "most dangerous game" is a short story about a hunter, rainsford, who ends up getting hunted himself on ship-trap island by another man. this passage is part of the story's exposition. what technique does the author use to foreshadow the plot twist which is to come? a) the humor that the men share at the beginning of the story changes into tragedy and horror in an ironic way. b) whitney's lack of empathy for the hunted foreshadows that he will have to learn how the hunted feels-- the hard way. c) whitney's inability to see the island, even though he is known to have great vision, foreshadows his blindness about hunting. d) rainsford's lack of empathy for the hunted foreshadows that he will have to learn how the hunted feels-- the hard way.