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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why is Katniss drawn in by Rue, the girl from District Eleven?
2. What is on the pin Madge gives Katniss to wear in the arena?
3. How often do high scoring tributes win the Hunger Games?
4. What gift does the baker bring Katniss when he comes to say goodbye?
5. What does Cinna do to Katniss and Peeta's outfits as their chariot joins the procession?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happened to Katniss and Gale's fathers? Why are they now the providers in their separate families?
2. Who told Katniss not to go to the Cornucopia at the beginning of the games? Why does Katniss think this was bad advice? What distracts Katniss from taking all she had wanted from the Cornucopia?
3. What parts of the interview process does Effie teach Katniss? What parts of the interview process does Haymitch teach Katniss?
4. What skill does Peeta talk up about Katniss to Haymitch? How does Katniss respond to this praise?
5. What point of view does the author use to write this novel? From whose point of view is the novel told?
6. What confession does Peeta make at the end of the interviews that causes shock and surprise in everyone?
7. What is unusual about the childhood of Katniss' mother? How does this connect Peeta and Katniss?
8. What surprise visitors does Katniss get in the hour before she is due to leave for the Hunger Games? What reason do these people give for visiting her?
9. Why does Katniss become angry with Peeta after his announcement at the end of Part 2, Chapter 9? How does she react to Peeta alone?
10. What activity are Katniss and Gale participating in at the beginning of the novel? For what reason are they doing this? What dangers are posed by their actions?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The reader's view of Peeta Mellark may change multiple times throughout the Hunger Games; what is his role in this novel? Are his feelings for Katniss real? How can you tell? Does Peeta symbolize anything?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the world and setting created for this novel. How did Panem come to be? How is it divided, and for what reasons? How is Panem similar and different from our own world?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Haymitch's role in the Hunger Games. How can be described? What are his faults? Does he have any redeeming qualities? If so, what are they? What is Haymitch's primary motivation?
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