Setting
Characters
Figurative Language
Vocabulary
Misc.
100

This is the name of the island.

What is ShipTrap Island?

100

This is General Zaroff's assistant's name.

What is Ivan?

100

This is the firgure of speech in "It's like moist black velvet."

What is a simile?

100

This is a word for sluggish, slow, lazy.

What is indolent?

100

This is how the general ensures that no one escapes the house at night.

What is releases his dogs to patrol the island?

200

This is where the yacht carrying Rainsford is traveling to.

What is up the Amazon River?

200

This is Rainsford's friend on the yacht.

What is Whitney?

200

This is the figure of speech in "a sharp hunger was picking at him."

What is personification?

200

A word for sudden or unexpected.

What is abrupt?

200

This is how Rainsford attempts to fool the general on the first night of the hunt.

What is he creates a false trail in the jungle?

300

This is how Rainsford ends up in the water.

What is reaching for his pipe that he dropped?

300

This is the owner of the island.

What is General Zaroff?

300

This is the figure of speech in "The lights of the yacht became faint and ever-vanishing fireflies."

What is a metaphor?

300

A word which means persistent.

What is doggedly?

300

This is why Zaroff claims he started hunting humans.

What is he grew bored of being such an excellent animal hunter and wanted a challenge?

400

This is a description of the weather.

What is hot?

400

This character willl "never have to open a tearoom in Monte Carlo or drive a taxi in Paris."

Who is General Zaroff?

400

This is the figure of speech in "The sea was flat as a plate-glass window."

What is a simile?

400

This is an animal that is hunted.

What is quarry?

400

According to this short story, this is the most dangerous game.

What are humans?

500

This is how many main characters there are.

What is 2?

500

This is the author of a book about snow leopards in Tibet.

Who is Rainsford?

500

This is the figure of speech in "Twenty feet below him the sea rumbled and hissed."

What is personification?

500

These are features that make something comfortable or convenient.

What are amenities?

500

This is how Ivan dies.

What is stabbed by one of Rainsford's traps?