Read the excerpt below and answer the question. we have four here to board, great good-for-nothings, sprawling about the kitchen with their talk while i fry their bacon. much they care! no more put out in what they do or say than if i wasn't in the room at all. what does the word sprawling suggest? the kitchen is spacious and comfortable. the room is crowded with people. the men act with inappropriate ease in the home. the men feel awkward and uncomfortable around the narrator.

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.