The Hunger Games, Chapter 20 quiz

Questions and answers

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   Question 1. What does Katniss do to treat Peeta's fever during the cold first night?

   • She feeds him berries mashed with cold water
   • She takes him out of the sleeping bag to cool off
   • She bathes him in the cold water of the stream
   • Correct answer: She lays a damp strip of bandage on his forehead

   Unsure whether heat or cold would help more, she settles on a damp bandage, afraid to try anything too drastic.

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   Question 2. Why is Katniss annoyed when she wakes up in the afternoon?

   • Correct answer: Peeta let her sleep far longer than they agreed
   • Peeta wandered off to the stream while she slept
   • A cannon fired and Peeta failed to wake her
   • Peeta ate all the groosling while she slept

   She asked to be woken after a few hours, but Peeta let her sleep because nothing was happening and he liked watching her sleep.

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   Question 3. Why does Katniss doubt that Haymitch can afford the medicine Peeta needs?

   • Sponsors have stopped sending gifts to District 12
   • Correct answer: Gifts get pricier the longer the Games go on
   • The Gamemakers have banned medicine from the arena
   • Haymitch is too drunk to talk to any sponsors

   Gift prices rise as the Games continue, and strong anti-infection drugs would have been costly even on the first day.

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   Question 4. Why does Katniss choose her words carefully when she tells the goat story?

   • She can't remember the details of that day
   • She wants to keep the story short for Peeta
   • Correct answer: She doesn't want to expose the people who trade with her
   • She worries Prim will be embarrassed on camera

   All of Panem is listening, and naming Gale, Greasy Sae, the butcher or her Peacekeeper customers would announce that they break the law too.

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   Question 5. What part does Rooba play in Katniss getting the goat?

   • Correct answer: She calls the goat rotten, then winks at Katniss
   • She tells Prim about the goat before Katniss arrives
   • She lends Katniss extra money to buy the goat
   • She treats the goat's wounded shoulder with herbs

   By refusing the goat as too damaged, Rooba leaves the Goat Man eager to sell it to Katniss, and her wink shows she did it on purpose.

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   Question 6. How does Peeta show that Katniss is lying when she says she won't go to the feast?

   • He sees her packing her bow and arrows
   • Correct answer: He repeats her earlier lines back to her
   • He notices she keeps looking toward the lake
   • He hears her talking to Haymitch in her sleep

   He mimics her gold mine remark and her claim that he feels cooler, proving how easily he can tell when she is lying.

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   Question 7. What does Katniss first hope is in the vial that floats past her in the stream?

   • Fever pills to bring Peeta's temperature down
   • Poison she could use on the other tributes
   • Correct answer: Medicine strong enough to cure Peeta's infection
   • Water purifier to replace what she has used

   She thinks Haymitch has found the cure, but the sickly sweet smell and taste tell her it is sleep syrup.

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   Question 8. What does 'stalemate' mean as used in: "We're at something of a stalemate."?

   • A trick played to fool an opponent
   • A sudden burst of anger between friends
   • A promise that both sides agree to keep
   • Correct answer: A standoff where neither side can win

   A stalemate is a deadlock; Katniss can't argue Peeta out of following her, and he can't talk her out of going.

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   Question 9. What does 'potent' mean as used in: "the cost of such potent medicine"?

   • Correct answer: Very strong in effect
   • Bitter and unpleasant to swallow
   • Cheap and widely available
   • Rare and hard to find

   Potent means powerful; only a very strong drug could stop the blood poisoning in Peeta's leg.

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    Question 10. What does 'giddiness' mean as used in: "In a moment of complete giddiness"?

    • Deep, lasting sadness
    • Quiet, careful thought
    • Correct answer: Light-headed, excited joy
    • Sudden, nervous fear

    Giddiness is a dizzy, excited happiness, the mood in which Katniss buys a pink ribbon for Prim's goat.

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    Question 11. Which of these events actually happen in Chapter 20?

    • Katniss finds red streaks spreading up Peeta's leg.

      Happened

      When she unwraps his leg, she sees red streaks crawling up it and knows it is blood poisoning.

    • Katniss lights a small fire to cook Peeta's soup.

      Didn't happen

      She cooks the soup without a fire, warming the water in the sun with hot stones from the stream.

    • Peeta asks Katniss to tell him about her happiest day.

      Happened

      Peeta asks for a happy story about the happiest day she can remember, and she tells him how she got Prim's goat.

    • Thresh discovers the cave while Katniss is at the stream.

      Didn't happen

      No tribute finds the cave in this chapter; Katniss only wonders whether one of them has located them.

    • Katniss tells Peeta she sold a silver locket of her mother's.

      Happened

      To protect the people she trades with, she says the goat money came from her mother's old silver locket, not the deer.

    • Katniss catches a rabbit in one of her new snares.

      Didn't happen

      She rigs half a dozen snares and hopes to get lucky, but the chapter never shows them catching anything.

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