The Hunger Games, Chapter 22 quiz

Questions and answers

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   Question 1. How does Peeta warm Katniss's bare feet after she wakes up?

   • Correct answer: He wraps them in his own jacket
   • He holds them near a small fire
   • He packs them in dry pine needles
   • He covers them with the plastic sheet

   Peeta rubs warmth back into her feet and wraps them in his jacket because her boots and socks are still damp.

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   Question 2. Where does Peeta put the broth pot when the rain turns into a downpour?

   • On top of Katniss's boots to keep them dry
   • Outside the cave to collect fresh drinking water
   • Correct answer: Under the worst leak in the cave's rocky ceiling
   • Beside the entrance to block the wind and spray

   Streams of water come through the ceiling, so Peeta places the pot under the worst one and moves the plastic to shield Katniss.

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   Question 3. What does Peeta imagine might be hiding in the tall grass where Thresh went?

   • Tracker jacker nests and hidden cameras
   • Traps set by the Careers and buried mines
   • Wolves, poisonous berries and deep pits
   • Correct answer: Snakes, rabid animals and quicksand

   Peeta says the field has a sinister feeling and that he thinks of hidden things: snakes, rabid animals and quicksand.

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   Question 4. What does Katniss hand Peeta to chew after their last meal?

   • A handful of roasted roots
   • Correct answer: A couple of mint leaves
   • A few pieces of dried fruit
   • A strip of smoked groosling

   Katniss hands Peeta a couple of mint leaves and puts a few in her own mouth.

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   Question 5. Why doesn't Katniss tell Peeta what she takes to be Haymitch's message, that a kiss earns a pot of broth?

   • She has already forgotten the message during her illness
   • Haymitch ordered her in a note never to mention his plans
   • She is afraid Peeta would refuse to kiss her ever again
   • Correct answer: Saying it aloud would show the audience the romance is an act

   Katniss thinks saying it aloud would tip off the audience that the romance was fabricated, and that would mean no food at all.

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   Question 6. Why does Katniss decide to get Peeta talking about his crush on the second day?

   • She is bored with being stuck inside during the rain
   • She wants to learn whether he can be trusted as an ally
   • Correct answer: She guesses Haymitch wants something more personal
   • She hopes to distract him from the pain in his wounded leg

   No food came after the kiss, so Katniss guesses Haymitch is looking for the kind of personal story he tried to draw out of her before the interview.

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   Question 7. Which memory makes Katniss believe Peeta's story about the first day of school?

   • Correct answer: She remembers a red plaid dress later handed down to Prim
   • She remembers Peeta sitting beside her in the music room
   • She remembers seeing Peeta's father at the school gate
   • She remembers her mother telling her about the baker

   There really was a red plaid dress, a hand-me-down to Prim that was washed to rags after her father's death.

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   Question 8. Which of these events actually happen in Chapter 22?

   • Peeta wedges the square of plastic into the rocks to shelter Katniss.

     Happened

     To keep the dripping rain off her, Peeta wedges the square of plastic into the rocks above her head and upper body.

   • Katniss shoots a groosling during a short break in the rain.

     Didn't happen

     The storm never breaks, so no one hunts; instead they finish the last two pieces of the old groosling.

   • Peeta says Haymitch told him Katniss would take a lot of convincing.

     Happened

     When Katniss asks why he gave her the bread, Peeta says Haymitch told him she would take a lot of convincing.

   • A new face appears in the sky after a tribute dies in the storm.

     Didn't happen

     No tribute dies in the storm: the only new face Peeta has seen is Clove's from the feast, and that evening's sky shows no more deaths.

   • Katniss takes the first watch and later has to wake Peeta.

     Happened

     Katniss insists on the first watch, but after three or four hours she has to wake Peeta because she can't keep her eyes open.

   • Cato finds the cave and attacks during the storm.

     Didn't happen

     No one comes to the cave in this chapter, and the sky shows that Cato and Thresh have not fought yet.

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   Question 9. What does 'deluge' mean in: "The deluge continues as if the Gamemakers are intent on washing us all away."?

   • A sudden crack of thunder
   • Correct answer: An extremely heavy downpour
   • A cold wind from the north
   • A thick fog over the woods

   A deluge is a flood or a very heavy rain, which fits a storm that seems meant to wash the tributes away.

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    Question 10. What does 'irreverent' mean in: "the irreverent banter that passes between us"?

    • Quiet and very careful in tone
    • Correct answer: Lacking respect for authority
    • Sad and full of deep regret
    • Polite and somewhat formal

    Irreverent means disrespectful of things usually treated seriously, like the jokes Katniss and Gale make about Panem and the Capitol.

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    Question 11. What does 'exorbitant' mean in: "everything will cost an exorbitant amount"?

    • Correct answer: Much more than is reasonable
    • Small and easy to overlook
    • Fixed and paid ahead of time
    • Shared equally by sponsors

    Exorbitant means unreasonably high, which is why sponsor gifts become so hard to afford late in the Games.

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