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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 Buttercup?
2. Who tells Katniss to focus on him during the interview to help her feel more comfortable?
3. What is in the trees growing in the roof garden on the training center?
4. What is happening in the streets of the Capitol the night before the Hunger Games are to begin?
5. What is the object of the outfits the tributes wear in the opening ceremony?
Short Essay Questions
1. What point of view does the author use to write this novel? From whose point of view is the novel told?
2. 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?
3. What parts of the interview process does Effie teach Katniss? What parts of the interview process does Haymitch teach Katniss?
4. How is Katniss and the other tributes prepared and entered into the arena at the start of the games?
5. 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?
6. What event is about to take place in District Twelve at the beginning of the book? Why does the entire town show up for this event?
7. Katniss tells the reader in Part 1, Chapter 8 how she met Gale. How did they meet? What did Gale teach Katniss about hunting?
8. What skill does Peeta talk up about Katniss to Haymitch? How does Katniss respond to this praise?
9. What does Katniss think of Cinna when she first meets him? What does Cinna tell her about himself at their initial meeting?
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
Discuss the training at the Training Center in the Capitol. What are Peeta and Katniss instructed to do during training that is unusual to the Hunger Games? What skills do each of the tributes exhibit, and what does this reveal about them? Compare/contrast Peeta's performance at the training center with Katniss'.
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Fully explore Katniss' relationship with Rue, and the affect Rue's death has on Katniss. What does this tell readers about Katniss? How did Rue's death propel the plot?
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