The Hunger Games, Chapter 16 quiz

Questions and answers

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   Question 1. According to Katniss, in which years have tributes from outside the Career districts usually won the Games?

   • Correct answer: Years when the Careers lost their food to reptiles or a flood
   • Years when the Gamemakers handed every tribute a weapon
   • Years when the Careers turned on each other in the first days
   • Years when the arena was too cold for the Careers to camp outside

   Katniss recalls that when the Careers' food was destroyed, once by reptiles and once by a Gamemakers' flood, tributes from other districts usually won.

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   Question 2. Which of these events happen before Katniss and Rue split up?

   • Rue tells Katniss the boy from District 3 was stung by tracker jackers too.

     Happened

     Rue says the boy from District 3 got stung too when the Careers drew the tracker jackers in by the lake.

   • Katniss and Rue cook the waterbird eggs over a small fire.

     Didn't happen

     Neither of them wants to risk a fire, so each of them sucks the insides out of a raw egg.

   • Rue offers to trade her grass necklace for Katniss's pin.

     Didn't happen

     Katniss offers Rue the pin, but Rue closes Katniss's fingers back over it and shows her own grass necklace as a good luck charm.

   • Katniss insists that Rue take her sleeping bag.

     Happened

     Before she leaves, Katniss insists that Rue take her sleeping bag in case they cannot meet by nightfall.

   • Katniss jokes that she will pick up another sleeping bag down by the lake.

     Happened

     Katniss says she will pick up another bag down by the lake and adds with a grin that stealing isn't illegal here.

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   Question 3. Where do Katniss and Rue agree to meet once the plan is carried out?

   • The marshy area where Rue found the waterbird eggs
   • Correct answer: The spot where they ate their first meal together
   • The shallow stretch of stream where Katniss bathed
   • The tree where Rue first pointed out the tracker jacker nest

   They decide to meet at the site of their first meal together, and Katniss expects the stream to guide her back to it.

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   Question 4. How does Katniss find a safe place to watch the Career camp?

   • She remembers the hiding spot from the first day of the Games
   • She tracks Foxface's footprints to a hollow under a log
   • She follows a mockingjay's song down to the lake shore
   • Correct answer: Rue gives her directions to a thick copse at the wood's edge

   Rue gave specific instructions for reaching the best spying place, a copse so thick down low that Katniss can watch the camp unseen.

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   Question 5. Why does Katniss believe the Careers still have large swollen lumps from the tracker jacker attack?

   • Their sponsors have refused to send them any medicine at all
   • They were stung a second time while sleeping beside the lake
   • Correct answer: They likely didn't remove the stingers or know about the healing leaves
   • The Gamemakers made the stings in their part of the woods much stronger than usual

   Katniss guesses they never removed the stingers or didn't know about the leaves, and that the medicines from the Cornucopia have not worked.

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   Question 6. Which of these events happen at the Careers' camp?

   • The Careers argue about whether the boy from District 3 should stay behind.

     Happened

     Katniss hears the Careers argue about whether the boy from District 3 should stay or go with them.

   • Cato thrusts a spear into the District 3 boy's hands before they leave.

     Happened

     Cato thrusts a spear into the boy's hands, and the group heads off toward the smoke of Rue's fire.

   • The boy from District 1 is left behind to guard the supplies.

     Didn't happen

     No one stays on guard: Cato says the boy from District 3 is coming, and the group leaves for the woods together.

   • Foxface carries a whole crate of crackers back into the woods.

     Didn't happen

     Foxface takes only a handful from each container, such as crackers from a crate, so that nothing seems to be missing.

   • Katniss lands a flaming arrow on a bin of cooking oil.

     Didn't happen

     Katniss gives up the flaming-arrow idea, since she could lose all twelve arrows guessing at an oil bin, and shoots the bag of apples instead.

   • Katniss crosses to one of the metal launch plates to look at the ground.

     Happened

     Katniss slips out of the bushes to one of the round metal plates and finds the ground around it dug up and patted back down.

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   Question 7. What does Katniss find when she examines the ground beside one of the metal launch plates?

   • A spare land mine half buried under some loose leaves
   • Footprints showing that someone hopped all around the plate
   • Correct answer: Earth that has been dug up and then patted back down
   • A wire running from the plate toward the supply pyramid

   Katniss reads the dug-up earth as a sign that the boy from District 3 has reactivated the land mines, which were disabled after the first sixty seconds.

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   Question 8. What memory of an earlier Games shows Katniss how little pressure it takes to set off a mine?

   • Correct answer: A girl dropped her token, a small wooden ball, while on her plate
   • A tribute once tried to dig one up with a spear and was killed by the blast
   • A Career threw a stone at a rival and blew up his own camp
   • The Gamemakers set off every mine to end a slow year

   Katniss remembers a girl who dropped her small wooden token while standing on her plate, which shows the mines need very little pressure.

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   Question 9. Why does Katniss at first decide against shooting a flaming arrow into the pyramid?

   • She promised Rue there would be no fires near the lake
   • The netting over the pyramid is far too thick for any arrow to pass
   • She has only two arrows left and needs them for hunting
   • Correct answer: The fire might burn out and reveal her, her bow and her ally

   There is no guarantee it would catch, and a failed shot would tell the Careers she was there, had an accomplice and could shoot accurately.

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    Question 10. What does Katniss decide the boy from District 3 has done that she has never seen anyone do in the Games?

    • Survived a tracker jacker attack without any medicine
    • Correct answer: Reactivated the land mines buried around the launch plates
    • Built a working radio out of parts from the Cornucopia
    • Talked the Careers into sparing him in exchange for food

    Katniss concludes he managed to reactivate the disabled mines, something she bets even surprised the Gamemakers.

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    Question 11. What does 'misgivings' mean as used in: "Nor do I have any misgivings about her"?

    • Feelings of envy
    • Correct answer: Feelings of doubt or worry
    • Memories of past mistakes made
    • Plans made in secret

    Misgivings are doubts or worries; Katniss feels no doubt about trusting Rue.

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    Question 12. What does 'proximity' mean as used in: "My proximity to the Careers' camp sharpens my senses"?

    • Correct answer: Nearness to something
    • Fear of being seen
    • Anger at an enemy
    • Distance from home

    Proximity means nearness; being close to the Careers makes Katniss more alert.

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    Question 13. What does 'perplexing' mean as used in: "The whole setup is completely perplexing."?

    • Impressive and well planned
    • Boring and easy to ignore
    • Correct answer: Confusing and hard to explain
    • Dangerous and likely to fail

    Perplexing means puzzling; Katniss can't yet explain why the supplies are left out in the open.

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