The Hunger Games

Part 1, Chapters 1-5

Reading Check

1. 12 (Chapter 1)

2. 13 (Chapter 1)

3. To spy on rebels (Chapter 3)

4. Haymitch Abernathy (Chapter 3)

Short Answer

1. Life is very difficult, filled with poverty. People work in the coal mines and face great danger. (Chapter 1)

2. They touch their three middle fingers of their left hand to their lips and then point them toward her, which is significant in their culture. (Chapter 2)

3. Cinna uses an effect that looks like flames to highlight District 12. (Chapter 5)

Part 1, Chapters 6-9

Reading Check

1. By creating camouflage (Chapter 7)

2. Rue (Chapter 7)

3. 8 and 11 (Chapter 8)

Short Answer

1. An Avox is someone the Capitol views as a criminal and punishes by cutting out their tongue. (Chapter 6)

2. During a televised interview, Peeta tells the host he has feelings for the person who came to the games with him. (Chapter 9)

Part 2, Chapters 10-14

Reading Check

1. A backpack with supplies (Chapter 11)

2. In a tree (Chapter 11)

3. Ointment for her burns (Chapter 14)

4. A tracker jacker nest (Chapter 14)

Short Answer

1. Katniss angrily pushes Peeta for making a fool of her. (Chapter 10)

2. Haymitch tells Katniss that Peeta helped her by making people like her. (Chapter 10)

3. Katniss faces dehydration, fire, tracker jackers, and threats from other people in the games. (Various chapters)

Part 2, Chapters 15-18

Reading Check

1. Rue (Various chapters)

2. Their supplies (Chapter 16)

Short Answer

1. Katniss realizes the Careers’ camp is rigged with explosives and blows up the explosives from afar, getting injured in the explosion. (Chapters 16-17)

2. The Careers hope the cannon will show that Katniss is dead, but when they do not sound, they know she is alive after attacking their camp. (Chapter 17)

3. Katniss has befriended and tried to protect Rue, who is from District 11. When Rue dies, she buries her in flowers. (Chapter 18)

4. If two tributes from the same district survive the game, they can both win the games. (Chapter 18)

Part 3, Chapters 19-23

Reading Check

1. Medicine to save Peeta’s life (Chapter 21)

2. Eating stolen poison nightlock berries (Chapter 23)

Short Answer

1. Thresh is about to kill Katniss when she tells him how she helped Rue. He decides to spare her one time to repay her. (Chapter 21)

2. Katniss imagines living a life with plenty of food, rewarded by the Capitol for winning the game but internally haunted by guilt. She also thinks about how Peeta will take the fact that she has been pretending to be in love for their survival. (Chapter 23) 

Part 3, Chapters 24-27

Reading Check

1. To the Cornucopia (Chapter 24)

2. Mutant animals like wolves with human eyes (Chapters 24-25)

Short Answer

1. After the Capitol changes the rules back, saying only one person can win the games, Katniss and Peeta realize the Capitol needs a winner. They prepare to take nightlock berries, but the Capitol rushes to declare them both winners. (Chapter 25)

2. Haymitch tells Katniss that the Capitol is furious that she forced their hand and that she is in immense danger. (Chapter 26)