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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. Where does Katniss choose to tell her plan to Peeta?

2. At the President's party, what is Katniss's main interest?

3. How does Katniss get back inside District 12?

4. What does Katniss discover when she returns to District 12 from the woods?

5. Why is the mockingjay a symbol of the Capitol's failure?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Peeta's talent?

2. What is Katniss's "talent"?

3. What happens after Katniss and Peeta speak in District 11?

4. What drove Bonnie and Twill out of District 8?

5. What does Katniss accidentally learn while at the mayor's house in District 12?

6. Why did both Katniss and Peeta survive the 74th Hunger Games?

7. Instead of planning escape into the woods, what does Katniss begin to plan as the blizzard keeps them all inside?

8. Why does Gale decide he will not run away into the woods with Katniss?

9. What is the twist for the 75th Quarter Quell Hunger Games?

10. What suspicions do Bonnie and Twill have about District 13?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Peeta and Katniss's speeches in District 11. How do they deviate from what they had planned to say? Why do they impulsively change their speeches? What is the reaction to them from the crowd? Have the crowd's actions been previously planned? Why or why not? How is this incident representative of the state in Panem as a whole?

Essay Topic 2

Katniss must play games throughout the entire novel to survive---not only the physical Hunger Games, but strategic political and mental games as well. What games must she play with:

1) Peeta

2) President Snow

3) Haymitch

4) Gale

Be sure to explain each answer completely and in at least two paragraphs.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the use of setting and description in "Catching Fire." What role does the setting play in the plot of the novel? Why are time and place so important? How does the author make use of the science fiction/fantasy genre to tell her story? Do you think the same story could have been told using a different platform? Why or why not?

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