About the Author
Characters
Setting
Terminology
Miscellanious
100
Suzanne Collins
Who is the author of The Hunger Games?
100
She is the protagonist of The Hunger Games.
Who is Katniss Everdeen?
100
13 total, but one is destroyed.
What are the Districts that make up Panem?
100
The restriction of speech or another form of public communication.
What is censorship?
100
True or False: The Hunger Games was first published in 2008.
What is true?
200
1962 in Hartford, Connecticut
What is the year and place of the author's birth?
200
Survive the Hunger Games.
What is Katniss' main objective.
200
A society that is described as frightening. It is characterized by dehumanization, totalitarian governments, or environmental disaster.
What is a dystopian society?
200
In The Hunger Games, a "lottery" that determines which adolescents will participate in the Games as tributes for their district.
What is the reaping?
200
Katniss' best friend and hunting buddy.
Who is Gale?
300
The Greek myth that inspired The Hunger Games.
What is Theseus and the Minotaur.
300
The boy tribute from District 12 who is the son of a baker.
Who is Peeta Mellark?
300
This developed after the collapse of North America.
What is Panem?
300
Male and female selected (by lottery) from each district that will represent it in the Games; they will literally fight to the death.
What is a tribute?
300
Someone who has had their tongue cut out as punishment and cannot speak as a result.
What is an Avox?
400
An inspiration for The Hunger Games, which allowed her to get a better understanding of war, poverty, and starvation.
What is Collins' father's Air Force Career?
400
Small and gentle sister.
Who is Primrose Everdeen?
400
A "utopian" city located in the Rocky Mountains.
What is the Capitol?
400
The site of "abundance and nourishment" and supplies in the arena.
What is the cornucopia?
400
Effie Trinket's catch phrase.
What is "May the odds be ever in your favor!"
500
The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay.
What are Collins' three most successful works?
500
The only living District 12 Hunger Games winner who trains Katniss and Peeta and is drunk, usually.
Who is Haymitch Abernathy?
500
District 12's specialty.
What is coal mining?
500
A form of communication that's purpose it to influence the members of a community to support or not support a cause by presenting one side of the argument.
What is propaganda?
500
3 of the 8 themes associated with The Hunger Games.
What is love, power, social status, poverty, survival, competition, dystopia, and dehumanization?