Quarry can also refer to which?

• A. A person or animal being hunted or searched for
• B. A type of stone
• C. A hunter
• D. A hunting tool

Answer: (A)

Quarry here is about the target of pursuit. In hunting or tracking, the quarry is the person or animal being sought after—the prey of the hunt. So in a sentence like “The hunter tracked his quarry,” the word refers to the hunted target, not to a stone site or tool. There are other senses of the word—for example, a quarry can mean a place where stone is mined or the stone itself—but those don’t fit the idea of being pursued. That’s why the hunted target sense is the correct choice.