The Hunger Games, Chapter 5 quiz

Questions and answers

1. 1

   Question 1. When Katniss stands naked before her prep team, what does she compare them to?

   • Correct answer: A trio of oddly colored birds pecking around her feet
   • A row of silent statues in a Capitol garden
   • A flock of mockingjays singing in the trees
   • A pack of hungry dogs circling slowly around their prey

   Katniss is not embarrassed because the prep team seem so unlike people that they feel like oddly colored birds pecking around her.

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   Question 2. What reason does Cinna give for working with District Twelve?

   • He lost a drawing held among the other stylists
   • Correct answer: He asked for District Twelve, without saying why
   • Portia picked him as her partner for this year
   • As a newcomer, he was handed the least desirable district

   Katniss assumes newcomers get stuck with District 12, but Cinna says he asked for it and offers no further explanation.

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   Question 3. What does Katniss imagine using in place of cream to copy the Capitol lunch back home?

   • Squirrel broth
   • Mashed peas
   • Correct answer: Goat's milk
   • Wild honey

   Katniss works through each dish and decides goat's milk would have to substitute for the cream.

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   Question 4. What does Katniss's imagined home version of the Capitol lunch mainly highlight?

   • Her skill as a cook compared with her mother's
   • Her secret plan to bring Capitol recipes back home
   • Her wish to become a baker like Peeta's father
   • Correct answer: The huge gap between Capitol plenty and district hunger

   A meal that appears at the press of a button would take Katniss days of hunting, gathering, and trading, which shows how unequal the two worlds are.

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   Question 5. Why does Cinna keep Katniss's makeup light and her hair in its usual braid?

   • Correct answer: He wants the audience to recognize her in the arena
   • District rules forbid tributes from wearing heavy makeup
   • The prep team ran out of time before the parade began
   • Haymitch told him she should look plain and humble

   Cinna says he wants viewers to recognize her later, then names her the girl who was on fire.

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   Question 6. Why does Katniss joke that Haymitch should not be near the costumes?

   • He wants the tributes to look like ordinary coal miners
   • Correct answer: He has so much alcohol in him that open flames are a risk
   • He is afraid of fire after an accident in a past Games
   • He would order the stylists to cancel the whole fire plan

   Katniss says that with all that alcohol in him, it is probably not advisable to have him around an open flame, and both tributes laugh.

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   Question 7. At what moment does Cinna set the tributes' capes on fire?

   • Before the tributes leave the room where they dress
   • Once their chariot pulls into the City Circle
   • Correct answer: As the District 11 tributes are just rolling out
   • While President Snow begins his welcome speech

   Cinna appears with a lighted torch as District 11's chariot rolls out, just before District 12 enters the city.

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   Question 8. What do the cameras do while the national anthem plays?

   • They show only President Snow on his balcony
   • They follow the District 1 chariot most of the time
   • They switch to the citizens crowding the windows
   • Correct answer: They keep holding on the District 12 chariot

   The broadcast tries to cut around to every pair, but the camera holds on District 12 as its chariot circles once more and disappears into the Training Center.

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   Question 9. Which of these events happen in the Remake Center and Cinna's sitting room?

   • Venia says sorry after tearing a strip of fabric from Katniss's leg.

     Happened

     Venia yanks a strip of fabric from Katniss's leg and pipes, "Sorry!" in her Capitol accent.

   • Katniss refuses to let the prep team touch her eyebrows.

     Didn't happen

     Katniss keeps her side of the bargain with Haymitch and makes no objection, and parts of her eyebrows are stripped too.

   • Cinna asks Katniss who did her hair.

     Happened

     Cinna walks around her, taking her in, and asks who did her hair; her mother did.

   • Cinna tells Katniss he has styled District 12 tributes for many years.

     Didn't happen

     Cinna tells Katniss this is his first year in the Games and that he asked for District 12.

   • Katniss and Cinna eat lunch in a room with one wall made entirely of glass.

     Happened

     Cinna's sitting room has three blank walls and a fourth made entirely of glass, and their lunch rises out of the table there.

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    Question 10. Which of these events happen during and after the opening ceremonies?

    • The horses pulling the District 12 chariot are coal black.

      Happened

      The chariots are pulled by teams of four horses, and the District 12 horses are coal black.

    • Haymitch rides in the chariot beside Katniss and Peeta.

      Didn't happen

      Haymitch is not there at all; Peeta even asks where he is, and only the two tributes ride in the chariot.

    • Peeta asks Katniss not to let go of his hand.

      Happened

      When Katniss loosens her grip in the City Circle, Peeta asks her not to let go, saying he might fall out.

    • Portia puts out the flaming capes with a bucket of water.

      Didn't happen

      Portia puts out the capes and headdresses with some kind of spray from a canister, not with water.

    • The District 1 tributes ride behind snow-white horses.

      Happened

      The District 1 tributes ride out first, in a chariot pulled by snow-white horses.

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    Question 11. What does 'concession' mean as used in: "The only concession to self-alteration seems to be metallic gold eyeliner"?

    • A painful operation to change the face
    • A badge that shows a person's high rank
    • A costly cosmetic sold only in the Capitol
    • Correct answer: A small exception to a general rule

    Cinna mostly avoids Capitol body alteration, and the gold eyeliner is his one small exception.

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    Question 12. What does 'affectations' mean as used in: "a quiet voice somewhat lacking in the Capitol's affectations"?

    • Warm and gentle feelings toward strangers
    • Loud complaints and constant demands
    • Correct answer: Showy, artificial ways of speaking
    • Technical words used by stylists

    Cinna's voice lacks the high pitch, clipped words, and hissing s that Katniss notices in other Capitol speakers.

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    Question 13. What does 'tangible' mean as used in: "A hundred hands reach up to catch my kiss, as if it were a real and tangible thing"?

    • Very expensive
    • Correct answer: Able to be touched
    • Deeply unfair
    • Easily forgotten

    The crowd reaches for her blown kiss as if it were a physical object they could hold.

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