“… as fresh as a raindrop, as pretty as the [flower] for which she was named.”
Who is Primrose?
100
Gladiators had to fight against Lions. We only have to fight each other.
Who are tributes?
100
“Say you are poor and starving as we were. You can opt to add your name more times in exchange for tesserae. Each tessera is worth a meager year’s supply of grain and oil for one person.”
What is inequality between rich and poor?
100
This is the black market of District 12, where people trade and barter.
What is The Hob?
100
“Our part of District 12, nicknamed the Seam, is usually crawling with coal miners heading out to the morning shift at this hour.”
What is setting?
200
“…a paunchy, middle-aged man, who at the moment appears to be hollering something unintelligible… He’s drunk. Very.”
Who is Haymitch?
200
Panem et Circenses, translated into English
What is "bread and circuses"?
200
“You can see his struggle to remain emotionless, but his blue eyes show the alarm I’ve so often seen in prey.”
What is dehumanization?
200
I am The Seam in The Hunger Games, but I am this region of the US in real life.
What is Appalachia/West Virginia?
200
“He’s probably forgotten it. But I haven’t and I know I never will… It was during the worst time. My father had been killed in the mine accident three months earlier in the bitterest January anyone could remember.”
What is flashback?
300
“I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.”
Who is Katniss?
300
Romans would pay taxes (tributa) in wealth or kind. The District 12 doesn’t have that choice. They paid the Capitol in this type of kind.
What is coal?
300
“…this is upsetting me and I don’t want to cry. When they televise the replay of the reapings tonight, everyone will make note of my tears, and I’ll be marked as an easy target.”
What is appearance vs. reality?
300
I am District 12’s escort to the Capitol.
Who is Effie Trinkett?
300
"At first one, then another, then almost every member of the crowd touches the three middle fingers of their left hand to their lips and holds it out to me."
What is narration?
400
“His rage seems pointless to me, although I never say so. It’s not that I don’t agree with him. I do. But what good is yelling about the Capitol in the middle of the woods?”
Who is Gale?
400
14 districts were found here.
What is Ancient Rome?
400
“All I knew was that I had lost not only a father, but a mother as well. At eleven years old, with Prim just seven, I took over as head of the family. I had no choice.”
What is bildungsroman?
400
Bread is a symbol of this in The Hunger Games.
What is life?
400
“When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold.”
What is point of view?
500
“Medium height, stocky build, ashy blond hair that falls in waves over his forehead.”
Who is Peeta?
500
Instead bread and circuses, Panem provided this type of food and entertainment.
What are tesserae and The Hunger Games?
500
“But there are others, too, who have no one they love at stake, or who no longer care, who slip among the crowd, taking bets on the two kids whose names will be drawn.”
What is suffering as a form of entertainment?
500
Gale gets mad at the mayor’s daughter because of this.
What is the gold pin?
500
“I feel like I owe him something, and I hate owing people. Maybe if I had thanked him at some point… but the opportunity never seemed to present itself. And now it never will. Because we’re going to be thrown into an arena to fight to the death.”