The Hunger Games

Question 1

Where does the story take place?

Answer 1

A futuristic, dystopian society in North America called Panem

Question 2

Who is the protagonist of the story?

Answer 2

Katniss

Question 3

Who is the antagonist of the story?

Answer 3

the government of Panem

Question 4

What are some examples of conflicts within the story?

Answer 4

man vs man (tributes fighting)
man vs self (love triangle, internal struggle to survive, etc)
man vs technology/ nature (the arena is an artificial form of nature)
man vs society (Katniss and Peeta struggling against the capital)

Question 5

What is Katniss’s nickname?

Answer 5

Catnip

Question 6

Who is in Katniss’s family?

Answer 6

Her father (deceased), mother, and sister Primrose

Question 7

How did Katniss’s father die?

Answer 7

A mine explosion

Question 8

Where does Katniss live?

Answer 8

District 12

Question 9

Where does Katniss live?

Answer 9

District 12

Question 10

How does Katniss get most of the food for her family?

Answer 10

Illegal hunting, the black market (hob), Prim’s goat, tesserae

Question 11

How does Katniss know Peeta?

Answer 11

He gave her bread when she and her family were starving

Question 12

What does Peeta’s family do?

Answer 12

they are bakers

Question 13

What is the name of the delegate from the capital who comes every year to do the reaping?

Answer 13

Effie Trinket

Question 14

What is the name of the delegate from the capital who comes every year to do the reaping?

Answer 14

Effie Trinket

Question 15

What is a tesserae?

Answer 15

a small ration of grain and oil the citizens of District 12 can get for putting their name into the reaping

Question 16

Whose name is drawn first at the reaping?

Answer 16

Primrose Everdeen

Question 17

What happens when Prim’s name is drawn?

Answer 17

Katniss volunteers

Question 18

Which boy’s name is drawn at the reaping?

Answer 18

Peeta Mellark

Question 19

What is the name of District 12’s victor?

Answer 19

Haymitch Abernathy

Question 20

What does Katniss score when she appears before the gamemakers?

Answer 20

11

Question 21

What is Katniss’s weapon of choice?

Answer 21

A bow and arrows

Question 22

What is the “nickname” given to the tributes who are raised for the Games and volunteer to compete?

Answer 22

The careers

Question 23

Who appears to be the leader of the careers?

Answer 23

Cato

Question 24

What is the name of the structure where all the supplies are kept at the beginning of the Hunger Games?

Answer 24

The Cornucopia

Question 25

What happens to the tributes if they step off the platform early before the Games officially start?

Answer 25

They get blown up

Question 26

What does Haymitch tell Katniss and Peeta to do at the very beginning of the Games?

Answer 26

Don't fight at the Cornucopia- run to the woods, find safety and water

Question 27

What does Peeta do that Katniss first interprets as a betrayal, then realizes is to protect her?

Answer 27

Teams up with the Careers

Question 28

How do the Gamemakers decide to push Katniss closer to the other tributes?

Answer 28

A forest fire

Question 29

Who does Katniss first team up with?

Answer 29

Rue

Question 30

How does Rue help Katniss escape the Careers?

Answer 30

They drop a Tracker Jacker nest on them

Question 31

How does Rue teach Katniss to communicate?

Answer 31

Mockingjays

Question 32

What does Katniss do as Rue dies?

Answer 32

Sings to her

Question 33

How does Katniss make sure the capital and the citizens see and acknowledge Rue's death?

Answer 33

Covers her in flowers

Question 34

What announcement is made that prompts Katniss to try to find and team up with Peeta again?

Answer 34

Two tributes can win if they are from the same district

Question 35

When Katniss finds Peeta, where is he, how is he surviving, and what is his condition like?

Answer 35

He is hiding camouflaged by the river bed. He is in bad shape as Cato has cut his leg and it is badly infected

Question 36

Where does Katniss hide herself and Peeta during the storm?

Answer 36

a cave

Question 37

While hiding with Peeta, what does Katniss discover is best way to get sponsor gifts

Answer 37

Be romantic with Peeta

Question 38

What does Katniss need from the feast at the Cornucopia?

Answer 38

Medicine for Peeta's leg

Question 39

How does Cato die?

Answer 39

The hounds get him

Question 40

Who are the hounds?

Answer 40

The fallen tributes

Question 41

What announcement is made right after Cato dies and Katniss and Peeta seemingly win?

Answer 41

The revision where two tributes could win has been revoked. One of them will have to kill the other

Question 42

How do Katniss and Peeta get past the revoked rule change?

Answer 42

The threaten to (and almost do) eat poison berries that would kill them both

Question 43

Explain Katniss's internal conflict upon returning home

Answer 43

Love triangle between Peeta and Gale, pressure that now the capital is very unhappy and threatening toward her for outsmarting them and making them look bad.