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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. How long are the tributes forced to stand on their platforms before rushing to gather supplies at the Cornucopia at the start of the games?
2. What is on the pin Madge gives Katniss to wear in the arena?
3. What gadgets in her bedroom in Part 1, Chapter 6 impress Katniss on her first night there?
4. Why is Katniss drawn in by Rue, the girl from District Eleven?
5. Who is Cinna?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What point of view does the author use to write this novel? From whose point of view is the novel told?
3. Why does Katniss grow angry with the Gamemakers during the individual exhibition of skills? What does she do about it?
4. During dinner, Katniss sees one of the servants who has been assigned to their floor and believes she knows her. However, the girl cannot speak. What is an Avox? How does Katniss know this Avox?
5. What happened to Katniss and Gale's fathers? Why are they now the providers in their separate families?
6. 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?
7. What is unusual about the childhood of Katniss' mother? How does this connect Peeta and Katniss?
8. What skill does Peeta talk up about Katniss to Haymitch? How does Katniss respond to this praise?
9. How many tributes are killed on the first day of the games? How many remain?
10. What parts of the interview process does Effie teach Katniss? What parts of the interview process does Haymitch teach Katniss?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss one of the following themes in detail in an essay using examples from the novel to support your conclusions:
1) Family
2) Friendship
3) Life and Death Struggle
Essay Topic 2
Explore the character of Effie Trinket. How can she be described? What are her motivations? How does she compare to the other characters working with Katniss and Peeta throughout the Hunger Games?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the world and setting created for this novel. How did Panem come to be? How is it divided, and for what reasons? How is Panem similar and different from our own world?
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