Reading Questions for “The Most Dangerous Game”



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Reading Questions for “The Most Dangerous Game”

1. What is the setting at the beginning of the story?

2. What do Whitney and Rainsford do for careers?

3. What does Captain Nielson say about the place they are going (p.20)?

4. How does Rainsford respond to this?

5. What does Rainsford hear when he wakes up on the yatch ?

6. How did Rainsford end up on the island?

7. What is the first thing Rainsford picks up when he is on the island?

8. Describe the Palace that Rainsford locates.

9. What did Rainsford see when the door to the palace was opened?

10. Where is Rainsford from?

11. What kind of book did Rainsford write?

12. Describe how General Zaroff looks.

13. Who was it that answered the door of the palace for Rainsford?

14. What does General Zaroff offer Rainsford?

15. What was remarkable about the dining room of the palace?

16. What did General Zaroff do at the dinner table that made Rainsford uncomfortable?

17. What is General Zaroff’s passion?

18. What did Rainsford think was the most dangerous of all big game?

19. Where is General Zaroff from?

20. What type of game does General Zaroff say is the most dangerous?

21. What does Rainsford call Genral Zaroff’s new form of hunting?

22. Who does General Zaroff say that life is for?

23. Why does General Zaroff say he uses men?

24. What does General Zaroff call the island?

25. How does Rainsford question General Zaroff’s civility?

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