In "The Most Dangerous Game" how would you describe the mood?

You asked more than your entitled one question, so I have
had to edit your question down to focus on one aspect only of this excellent short story
- mood. When we think of mood in literary terms, we refer to how the story makes us feel
when we read it. Clearly to work out the mood we need therefore to be aware of what
impact the author is trying to have on us.

The last part of
this story, therefore, which features the enacting of "The Most Dangerous Game", is
designed to create a mood of great suspense in us, the readers, as we, from the point of
view of limited third person perspective, see the game enacted from Rainsford's
perspective. We see how he tries to trick Zaroff and how he fails, only to ultimately
win. Passages such as the following help create this
mood:

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Rainsford held his breath. The general's eyes
had left the ground and were travelling inch by inch up the tree. Rainsford froze there,
every muscle tensed for a spring. But the sharp eyes of the hunter stopped before they
reached the limb where Rainsford lay; a smile spread over his brown face. Very
deliberately he blew a smoke ring into the air; then he turned his back on the tree and
walked carelessly away, back along the trail he had come. The swish of the underbrush
against his hunting boots grew fainter and
fainter.

Here we see
Rainsford waiting to trigger his trap and launch himself upon Zaroff, but just before he
does so, Zaroff seems to realise what he is trying to do and
retires.

Passages like this one clearly establish the mood
of suspense. As Rainsford draws his breath, so the reader does to, as he waits to see
what will happen.