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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. What is the name of the country Katniss and the others live in?

2. What does the Peacekeeper at the lake show Katniss?

3. Who interviews Katniss and Peeta in the Training Center?

4. When the storm abates, what staple of District 12 has been burned down?

5. What does Katniss promise to do on the tour?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Victor's Village?

2. Why must Katniss get back inside the fence, though it has been electrified?

3. How have Katniss's final six wedding dresses been chosen?

4. What does Katniss realize as she sits with the unconscious Gale?

5. What is Katniss's "talent"?

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

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

8. How does Katniss's mother transform in a sickroom?

9. What happens in District 12 after the blizzard?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the point of view in "Catching Fire." What is the tense? Do you think is it helpful for Katniss to be telling the story? Why or why not? Do you think a different point of view could have been more effective or not? How does the point of view add to the suspense and action? Choose two moments in the novel when you think the point of view is effective and explain your choices.

Essay Topic 2

Create a character study of Haymitch. What are his strengths? What are his flaws? What insights does the reader gain about Haymitch from the tapes of the last Quarter Quell? Explain the bond between Haymitch and Katniss. How do they act toward one another? What deal does Haymitch make to Katniss? How do the events at the end of the novel explain much of his behavior?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Katniss and Peeta's performances for the Gamemakers during their training. Why do they each decide to defy the Games? Why are the Gamemakers separated from the tributes by a force field? How does this come into play later in the novel? Why is Haymitch dismayed when they tell him what they have done? How does this incident unite Peeta and Katniss, though they are still wary of the approaching Games?

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