The Hunger Games, Part Three quiz
From The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Part Two of The Hunger Games recapped: the arena, Peeta and the Careers, tracker jackers, Rue, the exploding supplies, and the rule change before Part Three.
15 questions · about 16 minutes
Questions and answers
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Question 1. After Katniss shoves Peeta, what does Haymitch say Peeta's confession gave her?
- Correct answer: Something she could never achieve on her own
- A rival certain to turn on her in the arena first
- A reason to stay well away from the Careers
- A strategy the Gamemakers are sure to punish
Haymitch tells her she was about as romantic as dirt until Peeta said he wanted her. Now the audience wants her too, and that means sponsors.
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Question 2. What does Cinna fasten to Katniss's shirt in the Launch Room?
- A ring that hides a poisoned spike
- Correct answer: Her gold mockingjay pin from the train outfit
- A carved wooden star on a cord
- A silver locket from her family
The pin is her district token and barely cleared the review board. The ring with a hidden spike belonged to the girl from District 1 and was taken away.
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Question 3. Why does Katniss leave the Cornucopia with an orange backpack instead of the bow?
- The girl from District 2 had grabbed the bow before her
- A land mine went off beside her starting plate
- Correct answer: Peeta seemed to shake his head and she lost seconds
- The Careers formed a ring around the weapons
Puzzling over Peeta's signal, she misses the gong by a couple of seconds, and that is enough to change her mind about running in for the bow.
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Question 4. What makes Katniss realize she must be close to water?
- Correct answer: Haymitch sends no water when she asks for it
- She hears frogs calling from a nearby pond
- Rue leaves a filled water skin at her tree
- A mockingjay sings near a stream in the valley
She reasons that the only good reason Haymitch would hold back water is that she has almost found it. Soon after, she falls beside a hidden pond.
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Question 5. Why does Katniss believe the Gamemakers send the wall of fire?
- She had lit a campfire that broke the Games rules
- The Careers asked them to flush her into the open
- A sponsor paid to watch her dodge the fireballs
- Correct answer: The audience was getting bored after a quiet day
No one has died that day, and the Games must never be dull. The fire is meant to drive the scattered tributes together.
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Question 6. How does Katniss escape the Careers camped below her tree?
- She shoots them with arrows taken from Glimmer
- Correct answer: She saws off a branch and drops a tracker jacker nest
- Rue distracts them by lighting a decoy campfire
- She waits until they leave to refill their water
Rue points out the nest. Katniss saws during the anthem and finishes at dawn, and the swarm kills Glimmer and the girl from District 4.
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Question 7. The tracker jackers are one of the Capitol's muttations. What is a muttation?
- A plant whose leaves draw poison from a sting
- Correct answer: An animal the Capitol engineered in a lab
- A wild creature native to the district forests
- A tribute who survives a poisonous attack
Like the jabberjays, tracker jackers were created in a lab and placed around the districts during the war as weapons.
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Question 8. What does Rue tell Katniss about the sunglasses in her pack?
- They protect her eyes from the arena's glare
- Correct answer: They let her see clearly in total darkness
- They show where the Gamemakers' cameras are
- They reveal hidden mines in the ground
They are night-vision glasses. Rue knows them from night harvests in District 11, where a boy was killed for trying to keep a pair.
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Question 9. How did the boy from District 3 protect the Careers' supplies?
- He rigged a net to fall on anyone who came close
- He poisoned the food stored on the outer edge
- Correct answer: He reactivated the land mines from the starting plates
- He buried spikes in pits around the supply pyramid
The ground around the starting plates has been dug up. Katniss works it out after watching Foxface hop carefully along a safe path.
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Question 10. What tells Katniss that Rue never reached the site of the third fire?
- Correct answer: The wood is laid out but was never lit
- The ashes are cold and scattered by footprints
- Rue's sleeping bag lies abandoned in the brush
- A mockingjay sings a song she doesn't know
The fire has been neatly built with tinder but never lit, so Rue ran into trouble somewhere between the second fire and this one.
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Question 11. After Rue dies, what does Katniss do to defy the Capitol?
- She shouts at the cameras that she hates the Capitol
- She refuses to leave until the hovercraft comes
- She burns the net that held Rue to the ground
- Correct answer: She decorates Rue's body with wildflowers
She wants to show that Rue was more than a piece in their Games. The cameras will have to show the flowers when the body is collected.
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Question 12. When a parachute arrives, Katniss thinks, "Maybe Haymitch's noticed my despondency." What does despondency mean?
- Stubborn refusal to accept help
- Sharp, sudden physical pain
- Correct answer: Deep sadness and loss of hope
- Quiet anger at a hidden enemy
Katniss is grieving for Rue and wandering without caring where she goes. The bread from District 11 arrives at her lowest moment.
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Question 13. During the fireball attack, Katniss notes that "the attacks finally begin to abate." What does abate mean?
- To grow suddenly stronger
- To shift to a new target
- To repeat in a set pattern
- Correct answer: To die down or lessen
The fireballs slow and then stop, which tells Katniss the Gamemakers want her alive and that another tribute is probably close by.
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Question 14. Which of these events actually happen in Part Two?
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Katniss shoves Peeta into an urn after the interviews.
Happened
She is furious about his confession, and the broken pottery cuts his hands.
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Effie and Haymitch go with the tributes to the Launch Room.
Didn't happen
Effie and Haymitch head to the Games Headquarters. Only the stylists, Cinna and Portia, travel to the arena.
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A knife thrown at Katniss lodges in her backpack.
Happened
The girl from District 2 throws it as Katniss runs for the woods, and Katniss keeps the knife.
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Katniss drinks the pond water at once without treating it.
Didn't happen
She adds iodine and makes herself wait about half an hour before taking a single swallow.
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Peeta tells the Careers that Katniss is deadly with a bow.
Didn't happen
Katniss notices that he has not told them, even though he knows better than anyone.
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Haymitch sends burn medicine in a silver parachute.
Happened
It is her first sponsor gift, and it heals her hands overnight.
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Question 15. Which of these events actually happen in Part Two?
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Rue heals Katniss's stings with chewed leaves.
Happened
District 11 workers carry the leaves in the orchards, where tracker jacker nests were left.
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Katniss and Rue share a roasted groosling.
Happened
Rue says she has never had a whole leg to herself before.
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Foxface helps Katniss set off the mines.
Didn't happen
Foxface acts alone, stealing a little food and slipping away. Katniss sets off the mines herself.
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Cato kills the boy from District 3 after the explosion.
Happened
Furious that the supplies are gone, Cato turns on the boy who was guarding them.
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Thresh kills the boy who spears Rue.
Didn't happen
Katniss kills the boy from District 1 with an arrow before he can pull out the spear.
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The people of District 11 send Katniss a loaf of bread.
Happened
A district gift to a tribute who is not its own is something Katniss has never seen before.
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