Questions on The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell

1.   Where were Rainsford and Whitney traveling to the Amazon rainforest?

2.   What has “an evil name among seafaring men” in the story?

3.   He falls off a ______ because the sound of gunshots intrigued him. 

4.   Rainsford finds an enormous building, a palatial chateau, on the island. Who lives in there?

5.   Why did Zaroff get bored of hunting?

6.   Why did Zaroff move to the island? What’s the “new animal to hunt” that he invented?

7.   Why does Rainsford agree to be hunted? 

8.  Rainsford builds various contraptions while he is hiding out: a Malay man-catcher, a Burmese tiger pit, a Ugandan knife trap. These injure Zaroff’s ________, kill a ______ and ______, respectively. 

9.   Why does Zaroff thinks that Rainsford has committed suicide near the end?

10.Who wins the game in the end? How do we know this?