Mrs. Marino
Lit & Comp I
Name: ________________________
Period: _________
The Most Dangerous Game
Study Guide Questions
1. Does Rainsford think animals can feel emotions?
2. What causes Rainsford to lose his balance?
3. Why does Rainsford swim toward the sound of the shots?
4. What clues tell you that Rainsford has good survival skills?
5. What words and phrases help you picture the building that Rainsford discovers?
6. What are some words that describe General Zaroff when he is introduced into the story?
What impression do you form of him?
7. Find two details that show Zaroff is a hunter. What are they?
8. What are the qualities that Zaroff says makes an animal ideal to hunt?
9. What are the two ways Zaroff is able to capture men to hunt on his island?
10. How does Zaroff treat his visitors? Why do you think it is important for Zaroff to treat his
visitors well?
11. Why does no one ever refuse to be hunted?
12. How are Rainsford and Zaroff alike? How are they different?
13. Zaroff is able to use his gun, his knowledge of the island, and his dogs to hunt. What does
the person who is being hunted have to use? Do you think the game is fair?
14. Why does the general believe that Rainsford will “find this game worth playing?”
15. What is Rainsford’s first action when he leaves the chateau? Why is this tactic not a good
one?
16. Rainsford decides to give Zaroff a trail to follow. Why does he go to so much effort to make
the complicated trail?
17. If you were in Rainsford’s situation, what would be going through your mind during the
hunt?
18. On the second day of the hunt, Rainsford tries two tactics to outwit Zaroff. What are they?
What does Zaroff plan to bring the next day? How does this intensify the plot?
19. As General Zaroff thinks back about the hunt, what two things bothered him?
20. How is the conflict between Rainsford and Zaroff resolved?