The Hunger Games, Chapter 13 quiz

Questions and answers

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   Question 1. How does Katniss know the forest fire in Chapter 13 is no accident?

   • Correct answer: The flames are unnaturally tall and even, like a machine made them
   • She hears a hovercraft dropping burning fuel on the woods
   • The fire starts at the moment the anthem plays in the sky
   • She spots the Careers lighting the trees with their flaming torches

   Katniss notes the flames have an unnatural height and uniformity that mark them as Gamemaker-made.

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   Question 2. Why does Katniss think the Gamemakers chose to attack on this particular day?

   • The Careers had asked them for help
   • Correct answer: Nothing had happened and the audience was bored
   • Peeta had revealed to the Careers where she was hiding
   • A sponsor had paid them to punish her

   The day had been too quiet, with no deaths, and the Games must never verge on dullness for the Capitol audience.

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   Question 3. Why does Katniss decide the fireballs are not being fired from a hovercraft?

   • She hears no engine noise anywhere overhead
   • The sky above her is too smoky to fly through
   • The fireballs all come from straight ahead of her
   • Correct answer: The angles of the shots are not extreme enough

   She reasons the angles are not steep enough, so launchers are probably hidden in the trees or rocks.

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   Question 4. Which memory comes back to Katniss as she soaks her burns in the pool?

   • Gale burning his hand on a cooking fire beyond the fence
   • Prim burning her arm while pulling bread from the oven
   • Correct answer: A burned miner whom her mother tried and failed to save
   • Her father teaching her to treat burns while hunting in the woods

   A family once brought an unconscious young man with a terrible leg burn to her mother; Katniss fled, Prim helped, and the man died.

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   Question 5. Why does Katniss force herself to breathe slowly when she first sees her burned calf?

   • Her mother told her deep breaths stop a burn from spreading
   • The smoke around the pool is too thick for normal breathing
   • Correct answer: She is sure the cameras are on her face and wants to look strong
   • She is afraid the Careers nearby will hear her crying out

   She believes pity does not get you aid, but admiration at your refusal to give in does.

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   Question 6. What reason does Cato give for refusing the silver bow?

   • Correct answer: He says he will do better with his sword
   • Peeta warns him the bow is too heavy
   • The bowstring was damaged in the fire
   • He wants to save the arrows for later

   Cato pushes the bow away and says he'll do better with his sword, a short, heavy blade at his belt.

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   Question 7. What does Katniss do with the arrow that lodges in the tree near her?

   • She leaves it in the bark so the Careers can't reach it
   • She snaps it in half and drops it at Glimmer's feet
   • She throws it back down at the Careers like a spear
   • Correct answer: She grabs it and waves it, but plans to use it later

   She waves it teasingly above Glimmer's head, but she really means to use it if she ever gets the chance.

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   Question 8. What does 'quell' mean in: 'hoping the lack of air will quell what I haven't extinguished'?

   • To hide something from view
   • Correct answer: To put an end to something
   • To make something heavier
   • To spread something quickly

   Katniss hopes shutting her jacket in the bag will smother, or quell, any flames still burning.

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   Question 9. What does 'abate' mean in: 'the attacks finally begin to abate'?

   • To start all over again
   • To grow louder and faster
   • Correct answer: To lessen or die down
   • To change direction

   The fireball attacks slowly lessen, giving Katniss a moment to stop.

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    Question 10. What does 'gingerly' mean in: 'Gingerly I stretch out my leg into the pool'?

    • Quickly, without a second thought
    • Proudly, so others will notice
    • Lazily, as if half asleep
    • Correct answer: Carefully, to avoid more pain

    Katniss moves her burned leg slowly and cautiously because it hurts so much.

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    Question 11. Which of these events happen during the fire and the fireball attack?

    • Katniss's jacket catches fire as she jumps over a burning log.

      Happened

      When she hurdles a burning log, the tail of her jacket catches fire and she rips it off and stamps out the flames.

    • A hovercraft drops fireballs on Katniss from directly above.

      Didn't happen

      Katniss decides the fireballs are not from a hovercraft, because the angles are not extreme enough.

    • A fireball burns away part of Katniss's braid.

      Happened

      A fireball sears off at least six inches of her braid, and she smells singed hair.

    • Katniss loses her backpack while running from the flames.

      Didn't happen

      She keeps her backpack and later stuffs her supplies back into it while sheltering under a rock.

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    Question 12. Which of these events happen after Katniss reaches the pool?

    • Katniss eats her last piece of rabbit with some water-plant roots.

      Happened

      At the pool she makes a small meal of edible water-plant roots and her last piece of rabbit.

    • Peeta climbs partway up the tree after Katniss before turning back.

      Didn't happen

      Only Cato and Glimmer try to climb after her, while Peeta stays below polishing his knife.

    • Cato falls to the ground when a branch breaks under him.

      Happened

      A branch cracks under Cato and he hits the ground hard, then gets back up swearing.

    • An arrow from Glimmer wounds Katniss in the shoulder.

      Didn't happen

      Glimmer proves useless with the bow, and Katniss grabs one of her arrows that lodges in the tree.

    • Katniss cuts a slash in her sleeping bag for her burned calf.

      Happened

      The bag is too hot for her leg, so she cuts a slash in it and hangs her calf out in the open air.

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