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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is on board the train with the tributes from District Twelve whose job it is to care for them?
(a) Workers from the train company.
(b) Workers from District Twelve.
(c) Workers from District Two.
(d) Workers from the Capitol.

2. Who does Peeta think Gale is to Katniss in Part 1, Chapter 6?
(a) Her boyfriend.
(b) Her uncle.
(c) Her cousin.
(d) Her brother.

3. What does Katniss throw out the window of the train?
(a) The cookies the baker gave her.
(b) The pin Madge gave her.
(c) A dress her mother gave her.
(d) A tape of the reaping.

4. What catches Katniss' attention about the dessert served the first night in the training center?
(a) It burns.
(b) It is four layers tall.
(c) It is made with rare berries.
(d) It is flavored with powdered sugar.

5. What is katniss?
(a) A flower with tiny blue petals.
(b) A bush that attracts wild cats.
(c) A plant with tubers that can be eaten like potatoes.
(d) A tree that grows small, red fruits.

Short Answer Questions

1. What weapon does Gale recommend Katniss get as soon as she can in the Hunger Games' arena?

2. Why does Katniss think the Avox remembers her from the woods on the day of the girl's capture?

3. How does the Avox respond when Katniss tries to apologize in Part 1, Chapter 9?

4. Why is Katniss drawn in by Rue, the girl from District Eleven?

5. What can Prim sell that will help she and her mother survive?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Peeta reveal about himself when he and Katniss go to the camouflage table during training? What memory does this bring to the forefront of Katniss' mind?

2. How does Haymitch instruct Peeta and Katniss to behave in public? What does Peeta think of this strategy?

3. What metaphor does Effie try to make to encourage Peeta and Katniss that they will do well in the Hunger Games? What is wrong with her metaphor?

4. How many tributes are killed on the first day of the games? How many remain?

5. 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?

6. What happened to Katniss and Gale's fathers? Why are they now the providers in their separate families?

7. What is unusual about the childhood of Katniss' mother? How does this connect Peeta and Katniss?

8. What parts of the interview process does Effie teach Katniss? What parts of the interview process does Haymitch teach Katniss?

9. How is Katniss and the other tributes prepared and entered into the arena at the start of the games?

10. What instruction does Cinna give to Katniss and Peeta as their chariot begins to take its place in the opening ceremony procession? How does the audience react to this act?

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