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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 Atala?
(a) The head Gamemaker.
(b) The head trainer.
(c) The Avox in charge of cleaning the training room.
(d) A servant in the cafeteria.

2. Why does Katniss refuse to cry in Part 1, Chapter 3 even as she leaves her family and home behind her?
(a) She is not sad.
(b) She does not want to give the Capitol the satisfaction of breaking her.
(c) She does not want to appear weak to the other tributes.
(d) She is afraid once she starts she cannot stop.

3. Who are Career tributes?
(a) Tributes from districts that specialize in professional industries.
(b) Paid volunteers who are hired by rich families to take their children's places in the games.
(c) Tributes from the richer districts who train year round for the games and feel going to the games is an honor.
(d) Trainers who teach the other tributes how to fight and win the games.

4. Why is Katniss drawn in by Rue, the girl from District Eleven?
(a) She is powerful.
(b) She reminds Katniss of Prim.
(c) She is pretty.
(d) She reminds Katniss of her mother.

5. On whose face do the cameras remain even during the President's speech at the end of the opening ceremony?
(a) The crowd.
(b) Katniss' and Peeta's.
(c) Cinna's and Haymitch's.
(d) The tributes from District One.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Delly Cartwright?

2. What one talent does Peeta have that Katniss feels he might be able to use in the arena?

3. What does Katniss throw out the window of the train?

4. Who is the only person allowed to be with Katniss as she waits to be transported into the Hunger Games arena?

5. What causes the death of another tribute within site of Katniss' hidden sleeping position in a tree the first night of the Hunger Games?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Katniss think of Cinna when she first meets him? What does Cinna tell her about himself at their initial meeting?

2. 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?

3. Why does Katniss grow angry with the Gamemakers during the individual exhibition of skills? What does she do about it?

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

5. How has Haymitch dealt with Katniss and Peeta's training up until Part 1, Chapter 8? What suddenly changes at the end of Part 1, Chapter 8?

6. 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?

7. What is a mockingjay? What is Katniss' personal connection to the mockingjays?

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

9. What surprise visitors does Katniss get in the hour before she is due to leave for the Hunger Games? What reason do these people give for visiting her?

10. Katniss tells the reader in Part 1, Chapter 8 how she met Gale. How did they meet? What did Gale teach Katniss about hunting?

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