Key Events
What does Katniss do to protect Peeta when the Careers attack in the cave?
Answer: She uses a tracker jacker nest to drive them away.
Which tribute from District 2 is part of the “Career” group alongside the others?
Answer: Clove.
What natural hazard injures Katniss after she destroys the Careers' supplies?
Answer: Tracker jackers (genetically engineered wasps).
What does the mockingjay symbolize for Katniss throughout the Games?
Answer: Hope and rebellion.
What type of irony is demonstrated when Peeta indirectly confesses his of love to Katniss?
Answer: Dramatic Irony
What injury does Katniss suffer after the tracker jacker attack?
Answer: She is stung multiple times and goes into a severe allergic reaction.
Who is the mentor for District 12, guiding Katniss and Peeta during the Games?
Answer: Haymitch Abernathy.
Why does Katniss decide to team up with Peeta after the announcement about two winners?
Answer: Because they are from the same district and can increase their chances of survival.
How does the theme of sacrifice appear in Katniss and Peeta’s relationship?
Answer: Peeta risks his life multiple times to protect Katniss.
What is the verbal irony when Katniss says, “May the odds be ever in your favor”?
Answer: It’s an empty phrase because the odds are actually against the tributes.
How does Peeta help Katniss recover after her tracker jacker stings?
Answer: He finds medicine from the supplies in the cave and tends to her wounds.
What is Peeta’s special skill that helps him during the Games?
Answer: Camouflage (painting himself to blend in).
What conflict arises between Katniss and Peeta regarding their relationship?
Answer: Katniss is unsure if Peeta’s feelings for her are real or a strategy to gain sponsors.
What does the poisonous berry, “nightlock,” symbolize in the finale?
Answer: Defiance against the Capitol’s control.
How does the Capitol’s control in the Games reflect the dystopian theme?
Answer: It forces children to kill each other for entertainment and control.
What significant announcement does the Gamemakers make during the Games after the careers are defeated?
Answer: They announce that two tributes from the same district can win.
What significant announcement does the Gamemakers make during the Games after the careers are defeated?
Answer: They announce that two tributes from the same district can win.
How does Katniss use fire in the Games as a weapon or strategy?
Answer: She sets fire to the Careers’ supplies to weaken them.
How is the theme of survival shown through Katniss’s actions?
Answer: She uses both intelligence and compassion to survive.
What is the situational irony about the rule change allowing two winners?
Answer: It gives hope but is later revoked (taken away), showing manipulation by the Capitol.
What is Katniss’s strategy after learning that two tributes from the same district can win?
Answer: She finds Peeta and teams up with him to try to survive together.
What is Katniss’s strategy after learning that two tributes from the same district can win?
Answer: She finds Peeta and teams up with him to try to survive together.
How does Katniss handle the final showdown with the last tribute?
Answer: She forces a double suicide with Peeta by threatening to eat poisonous berries so the Capitol can’t have a winner.
How does the relationship between Katniss and Peeta challenge the rules of the Games?
Answer: Their alliance and apparent romance disrupt the Capitol’s expectation of total violence and competition.
How does Katniss’s decision at the end create dramatic irony?
Answer: The Capitol thinks they have won control, but we know Katniss’s defiance indicates rebellion.