Characters & Relationships
Who confesses love for Katniss during the televised interviews, surprising both Katniss and the audience?
Peeta Mellark
What event marks the official start of the Games in Chapter 11?
The sound of the gong (the Games officially begin).
Define the word "sponsor" as used in the context of the Games.
a person or group who sends supplies to a tribute in the arena (often in exchange for betting or to support favorites).
Where does Katniss hope to find water after escaping the Cornucopia?
The lake (or the woods near the Cornucopia / piney woods).
What symbolic token does Cinna fasten on Katniss before she is launched into the arena?
The Mockingjay pin
Which mentor repeatedly tells Katniss to "stay alive" and advises her to find water after the bloodbath?
Haymitch Abernathy
What item does Katniss obtain early at the Cornucopia that becomes critical to her survival?
Backpack
What does the narrator mean by "tracker jacker"? (Give a short definition and why it’s dangerous.)
genetically engineered wasps whose venom causes painful swelling and hallucinations; they aggressively pursue targets when their nest is disturbed.
Name two items Katniss finds in the orange backpack that help her early in the Games.
Sleeping bag, plastic sheet, crackers, dried beef, small coil of wire, matches.
The "girl on fire" image symbolizes several ideas in the book. Name one specific symbolic meaning and briefly explain it.
Rebellion/resistance, identity (Katniss as a spark); explanation should tie to "girl on fire" costume and Cinna’s design.
Name the young tribute from District 11 who becomes Katniss’s ally and helps treat her tracker jacker stings.
Rue
What major tactic do the Gamemakers use to force tributes out of hiding?
The Gamemakers start a designed fire to drive tributes together.
Identify an example of foreshadowing in chapters 10–18 and explain what it hints at.
Peeta’s rooftop handshake or his confession foreshadows later complexity in his loyalties and his saving Katniss; or the mockingjay pin foreshadows rebellion themes.
What natural and engineered dangers does Katniss face in the arena (list at least three different types from chapters 10–18)?
Tracker jackers (mutant wasps), fire and fireballs, mines/booby traps, hostile tributes, dehydration.
How does Rue's death influence Katniss’s attitude toward the Capitol? Give one example from the text.
Katniss becomes more openly angry and vengeful toward the Capitol; she decorates Rue with flowers to shame the Capitol’s cruelty.
Which Career tribute is the most physically threatening leader of the Career pack and later pursues Katniss fiercely?
Describe what Katniss does to the Careers’ supply pyramid and how she accomplishes it.
She shoots the bag of apples to trigger mines; the apples set off mines that destroy the supply pile.
The text uses first-person narration from Katniss’s perspective. Name two advantages of this point of view for readers in understanding events in the arena.
Advantages: (1) Intimate access to Katniss’s thoughts and feelings (empathy), (2) limited knowledge creates suspense because readers only know what Katniss knows.
Describe how Katniss uses knowledge from home (hunting/trapping) to survive in the arena — give one concrete example from these chapters.
Setting snares for rabbits, climbing and belting into forked branches, camouflaging pack with mud, using knowledge of where animals drink to find water.
Explain the thematic significance of alliances (like Katniss & Rue) in these chapters. Give one reason alliances matter in the Games.
Alliances give survival skills/resources and create emotional bonds that motivate risks—e.g., Katniss & Rue sharing food and strategies.
Explain how Peeta's behavior creates a complicated public image of his relationship with Katniss. (Answer should include at least two effects on Katniss or the Games.)
Peeta’s confession makes Katniss appear desirable and creates a “star-crossed lovers” storyline that increases public sympathy and sponsor interest, but it also complicates Katniss’s real feelings and strategies.
Put these events in chronological order: (A) Tracker jacker nest dropped on Careers, (B) Katniss receives burn ointment from a sponsor, (C) Rue is killed, (D) Katniss blows up the supplies with apples. Provide the correct sequence.
B (ointment), A (tracker jacker nest used), D (apples exploded), C (Rue’s death)
Choose one quote from the provided passage (chapters 10–18) that uses imagery. Write the quote and explain how the imagery enhances the scene.
sample: “The world has transformed to flame and smoke.” — imagery of fire heightens danger and confusion.)
Explain why Katniss chooses to camouflage her orange pack and how she does it.
To avoid being seen at night and to stop the pack from locating her — she muds and chars the pack to tone down the orange color.
Identify and explain one example of how the Capitol uses spectacle to manipulate public opinion during Katniss and Peeta's interviews.
Peeta’s interview staged as romance; Capitol edits and replays moments to create narratives that sway viewers and sponsors.