Characters
This is the main character and narrator of the story.
Who is Katniss Everdeen?
The deadly event where tributes first fight for supplies.
What is the Cornucopia?
This young tribute who helps Katniss destroy the Careers’ supplies dies early and is remembered for her song.
Who is Rue?
Katniss shouts this to save her sister during the Reaping, shocking the crowd.
What is “I volunteer as tribute!”?
Katniss decorates this tribute’s body with flowers.
Who is Rue?
This tribute is known as “the boy with the bread.”
Who is Peeta Mellark?
These genetically engineered creatures attack the tributes
What are mutts (muttations)?
This Career tribute succumbs to tracker-jacker venom, hallucinating violently in the nest before dying.
Who is Glimmer?
This phrase is repeated by the Capitol before every Games to remind tributes of their fate.
What is “May the odds be ever in your favor.”?
Katniss shoots this to destroy the Careers’ supplies.
What is the bag of apples at the Cornucopia?
This character volunteers to take her sister’s place in the Games.
Who is Katniss Everdeen?
This natural threat creates a wall of fire in the arena.
What is a firestorm?
This male tribute dies while trying to take weapons from the Cornucopia, and Katniss barely registers his presence.
Who is District 2’s male tribute?
During the tracker-jacker attack, Katniss reflects on the venom’s effects and the Careers’ reaction, marking a pivotal moment of survival and strategy.
What is “The tracker-jackers… they make them hallucinate and sting themselves to death.”?
Katniss risks her life at the Feast to retrieve this item that will save Peeta’s life.
What is the medicine for Peeta’s infected leg?
This mentor is a former Hunger Games victor.
Who is Haymitch Abernathy?
Katniss drops this on the Careers to escape them.
What is a tracker-jacker nest?
This male tribute dies in the Cornucopia bloodbath, unnoticed by most of the other tributes.
Who is District 3’s male tribute?
This is what Effie Trinket says when trying to motivate Katniss and Peeta before the Games, revealing her obsession with appearances and ceremony.
What is “It’s all about making a good impression; the audience loves a victor who looks the part”?
The poisonous berries Katniss and Peeta threaten to eat.
What are nightlock berries?
This tribute forms an alliance with Katniss and reminds her of her sister.
Who is Rue?
Midway through the Games, Claudius Templesmith announces this major rule change over the loudspeakers, altering Katniss’s strategy.
What is the announcement that two tributes from the same district can both be declared victors?
This female tribute from a Career district dies early in the Games while trying to secure the Cornucopia, and her death goes almost entirely unmentioned.
Who is District 1’s female tribute?
This male tribute worries about being changed in the Games and expresses it to Katniss.
What is “I don’t want them to change me in there. Turn me into some kind of monster that I’m not.”?
Katniss earns this nickname after her fiery entrance at the Opening Ceremony.
What is The Girl on Fire?