The Hunger Games, Chapter 15 quiz

Questions and answers

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   Question 1. When Katniss wakes from the venom, what makes her suspect that more than a day has passed?

   • Her burns have completely healed over
   • Correct answer: The stiffness in her joints
   • The moon has grown full overhead
   • The trees around her have lost their leaves

   It was morning when she lost reason and is now afternoon, but her stiff joints suggest a day or two has gone by.

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   Question 2. Why does Katniss walk in the opposite direction from the path her body tore through the trees?

   • Correct answer: To get away from enemies who may still be drugged
   • To follow a sponsor's parachute she saw falling nearby
   • To find the Cornucopia and restock her supplies
   • To reach the lake where she last saw Peeta

   She heads away from where she came, hoping her enemies are still locked in the world of the tracker jacker venom.

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   Question 3. According to Rue, why are Katniss's stings not worse than they are?

   • The burn ointment slowed the spread of the poison
   • Tracker jacker venom grows weaker later in summer
   • Correct answer: Katniss had the sense to pull the stingers out
   • Katniss slept in cold pond water for two nights

   Rue giggles and says Katniss was lucky she pulled the stingers out, or she would be a lot worse.

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   Question 4. Why can Katniss and Gale usually avoid punishment for poaching in District 12?

   • The mayor has given them a hunting permit
   • Gale's father once saved a Peacekeeper's life
   • They sell all their game outside the district
   • Correct answer: All the officials buy their meat

   Katniss says they could technically be whipped daily, except that all the officials buy their meat.

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   Question 5. Why does Katniss wonder whether the Gamemakers are blocking out her talk with Rue?

   • The talk is too dull to keep the audience watching
   • Correct answer: The Gamemakers don't want districts to know about one another
   • Sponsors may stop sending gifts to tributes in alliances
   • Rue's district asked for its tribute's words to be kept private

   Even though the information seems harmless, Katniss suspects the Gamemakers do not want people in different districts to know about one another.

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   Question 6. In District 11, who is handed night-vision glasses during a night harvest?

   • Anyone who meets the harvest quota early
   • Peacekeepers guarding the orchard fences
   • Correct answer: Workers highest in the trees, beyond the torchlight
   • Children too young for the daytime work crews

   Rue says a few pairs are passed out to those highest in the trees, where the torchlight does not reach.

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   Question 7. What does Rue tell Katniss about Peeta after spying on the Careers' base camp?

   • He is guarding the Careers' supplies by the lake
   • He has been following Rue through the treetops
   • He was killed by the tracker jackers in the night
   • Correct answer: He is not at the camp with the Careers anymore

   Rue reports that the Careers made it back to camp, but Peeta is not there, so maybe he saved Katniss and had to run.

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   Question 8. What gives Katniss her first offensive plan at the end of the chapter?

   • Correct answer: Rue's remark that the Careers are not hungry
   • Seeing the Careers' camp through the glasses
   • A note from Haymitch tucked in a sponsor's gift
   • Learning that only ten tributes are left alive

   When Rue points out that the Careers are not hungry, Katniss realizes their supplies are what they depend on.

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   Question 9. Which of these events happen in Chapter 15?

   • Katniss kills a rabbit with her new bow.

     Happened

     Within a few minutes of setting out, Katniss makes her first kill with the bow, a rabbit.

   • Katniss finds her mother's healing leaves growing beside the stream.

     Didn't happen

     Rue pulls the leaves out of her own pack, and Katniss is almost certain they are the ones her mother uses.

   • Rue treats the sting on Katniss's knee first.

     Happened

     Katniss rolls up her pant leg, and Rue presses the chewed leaves onto the sting on her knee.

   • Katniss gives Rue several of her arrows.

     Didn't happen

     Katniss keeps all her arrows; she shares her burn medicine and some matches with Rue.

   • Katniss gives Rue some matches.

     Happened

     Before they head upstream, Katniss gives Rue some matches, and Rue makes sure Katniss has plenty of leaves.

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    Question 10. Which of these events happen on Katniss and Rue's first night as allies?

    • The anthem plays, and no one has died that day.

      Happened

      They settle into a tree just as the anthem begins, and there were no deaths that day.

    • Rue says a sponsor sent her a gift earlier in the Games.

      Didn't happen

      When Katniss asks whether she has gotten anything yet, Rue shakes her head.

    • Katniss tries on the glasses and spots a skunk in the dark.

      Happened

      With the glasses on, Katniss can see a skunk strolling through the bushes a good fifty feet away.

    • Katniss and Rue sleep in separate trees to stay safe.

      Didn't happen

      Katniss offers to share her sleeping bag, and the two settle into one fork high in a tree.

    • Rue says the Careers have two pairs of the glasses.

      Happened

      Rue tells her the Careers have two pairs, but they keep everything down by the lake.

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    Question 11. What does 'noxious' mean as used in: 'the noxious green slime that came from Glimmer's body'?

    • Correct answer: Harmful or poisonous
    • Strange-smelling but harmless
    • Glowing brightly
    • Thick and sticky

    Noxious means harmful or poisonous, fitting the green slime Katniss remembers coming from Glimmer's body.

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    Question 12. What does 'tentatively' mean as used in: 'Rue tentatively steps out into the open.'?

    • Silently and secretly
    • Angrily and suddenly
    • Correct answer: Hesitantly and cautiously
    • Quickly and boldly

    Tentatively means in a hesitant, uncertain way; Rue is not yet sure Katniss truly wants her as an ally.

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    Question 13. What does 'prestigious' mean as used in: 'the least prestigious, poorest, most ridiculed district in the country'?

    • Crowded and noisy
    • Wealthy and well fed
    • Large and spread out
    • Correct answer: Respected and high in status

    Prestigious means having high status and respect, so District 12 is the least respected district in Panem.

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