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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 only method that will work to help Katniss sleep?

2. How long did it take for the Peacekeepers to subdue the uprising in District 8?

3. What does President Snow think Katniss feels for Peeta?

4. What Hunger Games event happens every 25 years?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Plutarch Heavensbee show Katniss while they are dancing together?

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

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

5. What is the Victor's Village?

6. What is the first normal activity Peeta and Katniss do together?

7. What is Peeta's talent?

8. Why must Katniss and Peeta eventually marry?

9. Why is there tension between Katniss and Peeta?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How are the Quarter Quell Games different from other years of Hunger Games? Could Panem's political climate have affected the rules of these Games? Why or why not? Are these particular Games popular with the people? Why or why not? What could President Snow be hoping to accomplish with these Games? How does the tributes' display of unity after the interviews undermine this agenda?

Essay Topic 2

How does Haymitch communicate with his tributes while they are in the arena? What strategies does he use to help them survive? During the Quarter Quell Games, how did Haymitch communicate instructions using the bread? Why weren't Katniss and Peeta included in the plans for the rebellion? Do you think events would have turned out differently had they been included in the conversation? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the use of foreshadowing in "Catching Fire." How does the author use this device in the plot? Choose three instances of foreshadowing and explain their significance. How do these moments come back into play later in the novel? Why is foreshadowing in this novel so important?

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