The Most Dangerous Game

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Across
  1. 2. The story’s protagonist, a skilled hunter.
  2. 4. The place Rainsford is from.
  3. 6. What Rainsford jumps into to escape the hounds.
  4. 7. Rainsford hears this mysterious sound right before falling overboard.
  5. 9. The lights Zaroff uses to trick ships.
  6. 16. Zaroff says “we try to be ______ here,” showing his fake politeness.
  7. 17. A trap Rainsford builds using a bent tree and knife.
  8. 19. Zaroff’s favorite type of game to hunt.
  9. 20. The standard duration Rainsford must survive in the hunt.
Down
  1. 1. Rainsford creates this first trap, injuring Zaroff.
  2. 3. The reason Zaroff began hunting people instead of animals.
  3. 5. The central conflict type: man vs. ____.
  4. 8. The island where the story takes place.
  5. 10. The antagonist who hunts humans for sport.
  6. 11. The group of animals Zaroff keeps to chase his victims.
  7. 12. Genre of the story.
  8. 13. Rainsford learns what it feels like to be hunted, showing this character change.
  9. 14. The spot where Rainsford hides from Zaroff.
  10. 15. After the debacle in Russia I left the country, for it was __________ for an officer of the tsar to stay there.
  11. 18. The dangerous area of quicksand on the island.