Hunger Games
Dystopian Vocab
Dystopian Stories
Story Questions
Enduring Issues
100

Who is the main character of the story?

Katniss Everdeen

100

an ideal society

Utopia

100

an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle royale to the death

Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

100

This questions helps the audience understand the main character.

Who are they?

100

serious disagreement or argument

Conflict

200

Which district is Katniss from?

District 12

200

an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian one.

Dystopia

200

a dystopian novel set in the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that has overthrown the United States, where fertile women, called Handmaids, are forced to bear children for the ruling elite

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

200

This questions helps the audience discover the main goal of the character/s.

What do they want?

200

lack of fairness or justice

Inequity

Inequality

300

Who is Katniss’s sister?

Primrose

300

information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.

Propaganda

300

set in the totalitarian state of Oceania, Winston Smith, a member of the Outer Party, rebels against the Party's control and its leader, Big Brother

1984 by George Orwell

300

This questions helps the audience understand the central conflict or the story?

What is standing in the way?

300

the state of not having enough of something

Scarcity

400

What was the name of Katniss’s stylist?

Cinna

400

a false idea; something that one seems to see or to be aware that really does not exist

illusion

400

depicts a futuristic society where humans are mass-produced and conditioned for specific roles, prioritizing stability and happiness over individual freedom and critical thinking

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

400

These questions create the action of the story.

How do they respond?

What happens?

400

new method of addressing a problem

Innovation

500

What’s the name of the day when tributes are chosen?

Reaping Day

500

resembling the end of the world; momentous or catastrophic

apocalyptic

500

The game follows player character Jack, who discovers the underwater city of Rapture, built by business magnate Andrew Ryan to be an isolated utopia

Bioshock

500

This questions helps the audience understand the moral or thematic lesson of the story.

What does it mean?

500

 state of having connections or relationships with others

Interconnectedness