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Hunger Games Chapter 27 Comprehension Questions



Chapter 27

1. What goes on during the final interview?
On the final interview Cesare interviews both Katniss and Peeta. He questions them about the games and their love for one another. Katniss and Peeta are showing alot of affection towards eachother. They're kissing and cuddling togther. It the best scene. They sit in a little red sofa known as a love seat. They sit togther closley as the rewatch a little of the games. At the interview Katniss barely found out that Peeta got a new leg.

2. What happened to Peeta's leg?
Peetas leg was replaced with a metal plastic one. He couldve lived with his wounded leg. It was really bad. Hiis whole leg stoped circulating blood and thats why they had to remove it. Katniss felt bad for his leg because she let it get worse in the arena. 

3. Why does Katniss feel torn in the end?
Katniss feels torn in the end because she was confused with her feeling towards Peeta. She was confused of Gale too. She didnt know how to act. I think at the end she starts to fall for Peeta. She didnt know what she had becomed or what they made her become in the games. she said it was all complicated.

4. What does Peeta realize?
Peeta realizes that Katniss's love for him was all in act. He had thought that maybe some of her actions were real and that she might have really liked him. But he thinks that everything she did was only part of surviving in the games. Katniss faked everything just to win the games. This reallly broke Peetas heart because he actually wanted Katniss to like him like he did to her. 


Important Quotes (4 minimum)
1)Already the boy with the bread is slipping away from me. I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go."(pg.374)
2)"They play her death in full, the spearing, my failed rescue attempt, my arrow through the boy from District 1's throat, Rue drawing her last breath in my arms."  (pg.363)
3)"i also want to Tell him how much i already miss him. But that wont be fair in my part"pg.373
4) "I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.."  pg. 374

Hunger Games Chapter 26 Comprehension Questions

Chapter 26

1. How does the Capitol heal Katniss?
The Capitols heals Katniss by inserting tubes all over her body. And in that tube there was some liquid that went inside her. It made her very unconscious and would drown her to sleep. When she awoke she found all her scars gone and healed. Even her scratches were gone. The place were she burned her calf was as if it never happened. It was cured and her body seemed as if she never had anything. She was clean. She also got her haering back. 

2. What does Haymitch reveal to Katniss before she sees the crowd?
Haymitch reveals to Katniss just before she see's the crowd that the Capitol was very furious with her and Peeta for doing what they did with the berries. They didnt like that they tricked them. He told her that the last thing the capitol cant stand is being laughed at and now its the joke of Panem. They made a fool of them.  

Important Quotes (4 minimum)
1)"Home! Prim and my mother! Gale! Even the thought of Prim's scruffy old cat makes me smile. Soon I will be home!"(pg.350)
2)"There, I could only die. End of story. But out here Prim, my mother, Gale, the people of District 12, everyone I care about back home could be punished if I can't pull off the girl-driven-crazy-by-love scenario Hatmitch has suggested."  (pg. 358)
3)"Back home,District 12 is probably in chaos as they try and organize the homecoming celebrations for Peeta and me, given that the last one was close to thirty years ago.
4)"And right now, the most dangerous part of the hunger games is about to begin."pg.359

Hunger Games Chapter 25 Comprehension Questions

Chapter 25

1. What attacks the last three tributes?
Muttations attack the last three tributes. They look alot like wolfs. As one wolf comes close to her she notices something, a necklace with a 1 on it and she recognizes the eyes and hair color. Its Glimmer! Each wolf represents each tribute that died. She knows one is Rue because of the dark colored hair. The Captiol has a created a new bread. They eat humans. Katniss is scared and she cant belive the capitol would do that.

2. How does Katniss use her last arrow?
Katniss uses her last arrow to kill Cato. She shoots him right through the skull. She did it to stop his suffereing. She didnt want to see him like that anymore and wanted to stop his whining. She did him a favor by killing him easily and peacefully instead of letting him suffer and having the mutts kill him. They hear the cannon go off and know he is dead. 

3. What happens when the Gamemakers revoke the rule change?
 when the gamemakers announced about the rule change of only having 1 win. Katniss and peeta were not happy. Peeta wanted Katniss to win and to kill him but Katniss didnt want to she wanted him to win and kill her. They were indecisive. So they came up with the idea of having a double suicide. They got the poisenes barries and on a count of three they would both put them in thier mouth and eat themm. If they wanted one winner they couldnt have any. so when Katniss and peeta did this the capitol changed their mind and had them both win. 

4. Who wins the Hunger Games?
Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark. 

Important Quotes (4 minimum)
1)"The next hours are the worst in my life, which if you think about it, is saying something. The cold would be torture enough, but the real nightmare is listening to Cato, moaning, begging, and finally just whimpering as the mutts work away at him. After a very short time, I don't care who he is or what he's done, all I want is for his suffering to end."(pg.339)

2)"Stop! Stop! Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to present the victors of the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark! I give you ---the tributes of District Twelve!"(pg.345)

3)"And he goes on about how he loves me, what life would be without me but I've stopped listening because his previous words are trapped in my head, thrashing desperately around."  (pg. 344)

4)"It goes on and on and on and eventually completely consumes my mind, blocking out memories and hopes of tomorrow, erasing everything but the present, which I begin to believe will never change."  pg. 339

Hunger Games Chapter 24 Comprehension Questions

Chapter 24

1. How do the Gamemakers try to drive the last tributes together?
The Game makers try to drive the last tributes together by letting them meet at the last resource of water they have. The gamemakers drain the streams.and the ponds. They drain every water source except the lake. So they let the tributes know that the only place to get water is from the lake where at anytime tributes can meet up. 

2. How does Katniss feel about Cato?
Katniss feels sorry for Cato. She's see's him all bloody and hurt after the dogs attacked him. She can see that even though Cato is strong and all he's not soo wise like foxface. Cato couldve been an easier target for Katniss to trick instaed of Foxface. 

3. How do the final three meet up?
 The final three meet up at the lakee. Katniss and Peeta await for Cato to show up in which he will because eventually he'll get thirsty and have to come drink water at the lake. While they wait Cato comes running out from the trees towards Katniss and Peeta. Katnisss is aware and fires straight at him but the arrow slides off because he was probably wearing some kind of armor suit that protects him. But for some reason he's doesnt go running into her he's running away from something/someones. Katniss see's that it mutts.

Important Quotes (4 minimum)
1. "One way or the other, dead or alive, I have the feeling I'll escape it today."(326)
2. "By the time we reach our destination, our feet are dragging and the sun sits low on the horizon. We fill up our water bottles and climb the little slope to our den. It's not much, but out here in the wilderness, it's the closest thing we have to a home."(Pg.323)
3. I nod. It's funny. I feel almost as if it's the first day of the Games again. That I'm in the same position. Twenty-one tributes are dead, but I still have yet to kill Cato. And really, wasn't he always the one to kill? Now it seems the other tributes were just minor obstacles, distractions, keeping us from the real battle of the Games. Cato and me."(pg.327)
4. "Not on purpose. Doesnt seem fair somehow. I mean, we would have both been dead, too, if she hadnt eaten the berries first" pg 320

hunger Games Chapter 23 Comprehension Questions

Chapter 23

1. Why does Thresh's death affect Katniss?
Thresh's death affects Katniss because she feels bad. She didnt want him to die. She appreciated him letting her goo. At that time he could have chosen to kill Katniss and runn off to save himself. He could have ran off to get away farther and save himself. but Katniss feels guilty because instead he lost time by talking to her and letting her leave. and even if Katniss didnt make it to win the game she wanted thresh too. 

2. Who is left in the arena?
The ones left in the arena are Cato from District 2 . Foxface from District 5 . Peeta and Katniss 

3. What are Katniss' fears if she wins the Games?
If Katniss wins the games she fears that she might end up like Haymitch. Have his Job and do what he does. She doesnt know what her daily life will be. she's gonna have lots of money so theres' no use of her hunting anymore because she could just buy her own food. She doesnt like that she'll be the one to train the next future tribute from district 12 for the games. She doesnt want them to suffer. She doesnt want to whatch. 


4. What happens to Foxface?
Foxface ends up dieing eating the poisones berries she stold from Peeta and Katniss.  Peeta had gathered berries he thought were the same ones katniss gave him. He gathered them up in the cave. He didnt he them though. But he didnt know that they were poisenes berries. So when he heard that Foxface died he wanted to know how and When Katniss showed him how he was shocked. He couldnt beleive it was the berries he gathered because if it wasnt for her he would have ate them too and died of it. 
  
Important Quotes (4 minimum)
1. "Four of us left. For the first time, I allow myself to truely think about the possibility that I might make it home. To fame. T wealth.To my house in the victor village." 
2. It must be hell to mentor two kids and then watch them die. Year after year after year. I realize that if I get out of here, that will become my job. To mentor the girl from District 12. The idea is so repellent, I thrust it from my mind."(pg.306)
3. "Haymitch and I don't get along well in person, but maybe Peeta is right about us being alike because he seems able to communicate with me by the timing of his gifts." (305)
4. Thresh dead. I should be happy, right? One less tribute to face. And a powerful one, too. But I'm not happy. All I can think about is Thresh letting me go, letting me run because of Rue, who died with that spear in her stomach. . . ."(pg.307)

Hunger Games Chapter 22 Comprhension Questions

Chapter 22

1. How does Katniss compare Peeta to Gale?
Katniss compares Peeta to Gale in some ways. Like when Katniss mentioned going into the woods where Thresh goess to. Peeta rufused and came up with bad things that might happen if they go to an unknown place. However if she was to mention going in there with Gale, he wouldnt hesitate he would just go right in there with her. Gale never questions anything but Peeta does. 

2. What happens with the weather?
The weather begins to change drastically. It's gettting much hotter in the evening and very cold in the night. Katniss doesnt like the nights but the evening's benifit her because she doesnt have to start a fire to heat food up because the rocks are hot enough to warm anything up. But then all of a sudden it's starting to rain alot! it's getting reallly cold for them. Even their cave is starting out to not be a good shelter. 

3. How does Katniss get the feast?
Katniss gets the feast because her and Peeta start talking to eachother more emotionally involved. Katniss wants to give the audience more romance so she could get sponsers. She starts talking him about the first time he liked her. he starts talking about how he liked her the first day of school and ever since there he loved her. as they were about to kiss, they recive a sponser! A feast! 

Important Quotes (4 minimum)
1. "For a moment, I'm almost foolishly happy and then confusion sweeps over me. Because we're suppose to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love. But Peeta's story has a ring of truth to it."  pg 301
2. " This is the first kiss where I actually feel the stirring inside my chest. Warm and curious". (298) 
3. " I don't want Cato to kill Thresh at all. I don't want any one else to die. But this is absolutely not the kind of thing that victors go around saying in the arena.  pg. 293
4"She stood you up on a stool and had you sing it for us. and i swear, every bird outside the windows fell silent." pg. 301

Hunger Games Chapter 21 Comprehension Questions

Chapter 21

1. Who's the first to get their pack?
The first tribute  to get to thier pack first is Foxface. She gets it first because right away when the table clicks into place with all the packs., she runs for it as fast as possible and darts out even faster. Katniss was mad that foxface used such a brilliant and risky idea. She wished she could of came up with it. 

2. Who catches Katniss?
Clove catches Katniss. 

3. Why does Thresh let Katniss go?
Thresh lets Katniss goo because she helped Rue. Rue was Katniss's ally. Rue was from thresh's district. He was mad about them killing her. But after Katniss told him about her singing to her and covering her up in beautiful flowers as they took her up in the hover craft. Thresh felt some sympathy and knew he must owe her in some way. So from that he let Katniss goo. 

4. Why does Katniss think Cato will go after Thresh and not her?
Katniss thinks Cato will go after thresh and not her because he's the one that took his pack. Cato could also be after Thresh because he killed his partner tribute from his district. Cato  shouldve been very mad about that so Katniss hopes he takes it out all on Thresh.  

Important Quotes (4 minimum)
1. "And I'm overwhelmed by Rue, and the pain in my head, and my fear of Thresh, and the moaning of the dying girl a few feet away."
2. "Conflicting emotions cross Thresh's face. He lowers the rock and points at me, almost accusingly. 'just this one time, I let you go. For the little girl. pg 288 
3. Spirits must be running high in District 12. We so rarely have anyone to root for at this point in the Games."(pg.280)
4. My hands go to my head and then drop to my lap, slick with blood. The last thing I remember is an exquisitely beautiful green-and-silver moth landing on the curve of my wrist."(pg.289)

Hunger Games Chapter 20 Compehension Questions

Chapter 20

1. What is Peeta's condition?
Peeta is in really bad condition. His leg is still severely hurt. He cant move it alot. When Katniss wakes the next day she uncovers Peeta's leg to see how it is doing. She notices that the wound has gotten worse. Its really bad. All of Katniss's cure's did not work. The pills she gave Peeta didnt even work. He still has a high fever. And then she see's that he has blood poisoning .  She's very worried because Peeta because he might not be able to survive. 

2. How do the Gamemakers try to entice the tributes? What does Katniss think they have for her? 
Gamemakers try to entice the tribute by announcing some feast to bring them all togther. At the feast is when all tributes are faced to one another and have the oppurtunity to kill you right there and then. So when the Gamemakers call out to the tributes that by dawn they will have a bag containing needs for them a the cornucopia. Katniss is smarter than that and knows there's gonna be alot of tricks towards one another to kill when they meet. 
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3. What does Haymitch send Katniss? Why?
Haymitch sends Katniss sleep syrup. Katniss doesnt understand why she needs this at the moment. but then she knows its meant for Peeta. She will use it for Peeta so he can fall asleep and she can go to the cornucopia to get the bag. 

Important Quotes (4 minimum)

1. "My heart drops to my stomach. Its worse, much worse. . . . i see the red streaks starting to crawl up his leg. Blood poisoning. Unchecked, it will kill him forsure." pg 265
2. "He's just stuborn enough and maybe just strong enough to do it. Come howling after me in the woods. Even if a tribute doesnt find him, something else might. he cant defend himself" pg 275
3.  "Getting the broth into Peeta takes an hour of coaxing, begging, threatening, and yes, kissing, but finally, sip by sip, he empties the pot."  pg. 262
4. "I'll keep him going for a day or two, and then the infection will reach his heart or his brain or his lungs and he'll be gone."  pg. 276

Hunger games Chapter 19 Comprhension Questions.

PART III: THE VICTOR

Chapter 19

1. How does Katniss find Peeta?
Katnis finds Peeta camouflaged in the mud. This whole time he covered himself up in leaves and dug himself into the mud. it was a good strategy because not even Katniss could notice him even though he was planted right under her feet. Katniss tells him those decorating cakes paid off. He laughs and agrees. Katniss finds Peeta's leg badly cut. It was such a big slash. She doesnt know how he managed to get away from Cato. 

2. What is Peeta's true talent?
Peeta's true talent is baking. He uses his knowledge of baking to the use of it in the games. Like when he frosts the cake and decorates them. He was able to use that to camouflage himself in the mud without being noticed. Even Katniss tells him that his baking skills paid off. It kept him safe.  

3. How does Katniss treat Peeta's wound?
Katniss tries to treat Peeta with whatever she has in her pack. She put on that ointment that heels burns., she uses Rue's strategy of chewing up those leaves and putting them on tracker jacker bites. She doesnt know how to treat it but she tries her best. She remembers how her mother cares for ones back home. she gives Peeta food and water to keep him strong. even though she was never insight of her mother curing peoples wounds back home because it made her sick she tried dealing with it with Peeta. But she did admit to him that It was gross to her. 

4. Where do they hide out?
Katniss and Peeta find group of rocks up the stream that form some sort of cave. they settle thier. its best for Peeta. Katniss rather be safer in the tree's but it'll be impossible for peeeta to climb because of his bad leg. She decides to stay. 

5. How and why do they get the pot of broth?
Katniss and Peeta got the pot of broth because their romance for the audience did it. The kiss sent them sponsers. The pot of broth showed Katniss that the people loved the scene of her and Peeta kissing. 

Important Quotes (4 minimum)


1. "I lean over and put my good ear to his lips, which tickle as he whispers. 'Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.'"  pg. 253
2. "He's dozed off again, but i kiss him awake, whch seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he'd be happy to lie there gazing at me forever." pg. 261
3. "And in my case -- being one of the star-crossed lovers from District 12 -- it's an absolute requirement if I want any more help from sympathetic sponsors." (247)
4. "Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance." pg.261

Hunger games Chapter 18 Comprehension Questions

Chapter 18

1. What does Katniss do for Rue?
Katniss frees Rue from the net and sits with her. She tells Rue that she's going to win not only for herself but for Rue. Rue asks Katniss to sing for her and so Katniss does. While in tears she sings a lullaby she would sing to Prim whenever she got sick. It was a very joyful song to sing. Before the capitols hovercraft comes flying in to retrieve Rue body, Katniss does something very nice. She covers Rue's body with colorful flowers she spotted. So when they lift her the audience will know what Katniss did for Rue. 
  
2. Who sponsors a gift for her? What is it?
District 11 sponsers a gift for Katniss. It was Rue's District. It is a loaf of bread. She knows it has something to mean for Rue. They are probably thanking Katniss for what she did to Rue. Maybe it was from her family to show gratitude. Katniss doesnt know exactly from who but she's thankful for it and she let the audience know that. 

3. How does Katniss' attitude change after Rue's death? 
Katniss's attitude changes after Rue death by determinating her full power to actually win the hunger games. For her And rue. Katniss is very mad of rue's death because the whole thing is to be blamed to the capitol. All of these horrifying deaths are due to the capitol for these ridiculous games. She hates them soo much.

4. What rule change do the Gamemakers announce?
The gamemakers anounce a new rule that states there can be two winners this year. There can be two winners only if they are from the same districts and alive. It was a such a relief for Katniss because now she knows her and Peeta could actually have a chance to both survive and go home together. It was a weird rule because never has their been a change in rules. Katniss seems to think if it was due to Her and peetas star-crossed- lovers act? 


Important Quotes (4 minimum)
1. "Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to . . .  to show the Capitol they don't own me. That I'm more than just a piece in their Games." pg.236
2. "But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece of time we call today."  pg. 234 
3. But I told Rue I'd be there. For the both of us. And somehow that seems even more important than the vow I gave Prim.  ....   . Now I am determined to avenge her, to make her loss unforgettable, and I can only do that by winning and thereby making myself unforgettable."(pg.242)
4. "I try to hold on to the peaceful feeling of the dream, but it quickly slips away, leaving me sadder and lonelier than ever." (241)  

Hunger Games chapter 17 Comprehension Questions

Chapter 17

1. What happens to Katniss in the explosion?
During the explosion, it sets Katniss off flying back. She lands covering her face from all the exploding things flying, with her elbow. She gets up very dizzy and is unable to walk. However she doesnt here alot at that moment. She finds her ear bleeding severely . Later she realizes the explosion caused it to bleed. She is afraid that she might of got death from it. She hopes later on she gets her hearing back. 

2. Why does Katniss leave the rendezvous point?
Katniss leaves the rendezvous point because she see's that Rue is not their. Katniss waits and waits for her but there was no sign of her showing up. Katniss is pretty worried. She thinks she's hiding in some tree right now. So she's goes looking for her at the other fire spots Rue was supose to lit. Katniss just hopes nothing bad happened to Rue. She doesn't want her to get killed. 

3. What happens to Rue?
Katniss hears Rue's mockingjay song to let katniss know she's all right. Katniss follows where the song comes from. all of a sudden she hears screaming and she knows it Rue. She yells for her name and Katniss Finds Rue entangled in a net set up for a trap. A boy from district 1 shoots a spear right through Rue small body. He kills her:'(

Important Quotes (4 minimum)
1. "When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has time to reach her hand through the mesh and say my name before the spear enters her body." (pg.232)
2. "Dangling up in the tree, with the sun warming me, a mouthful of mint, my bow and arrows at hand . . . this is the most relaxed I've been since I've entered the arena."  pg. 238
3. "Let the seventy-fourth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real." (226)
4. "I'm dizzy. Not the slightly wobbly kind,but the kind that sends the trees swooping around you and causes the earth to move in waves under your feet."  pg. 222

Hunger Games Chapter 16 Comprehension questions

Chapter 16

1. What is Katniss' offensive attack?
Katniss' offensive attack is too be the hunter not the runner. She wants to be the one to search for poeple  instead of running off likes she's been doing lately. She comes up with a plan now to go after the Careers. She decides to burn up all their food they have back at thier camp. She wants to see if they can survive the games without food. 

2. In what ways are the Careers at a disadvantage?
The careers are at a disadvantage towards food because never in thier life have they starved like Katniss and Rue have. They dont know how it feels like to live without being fed everyday. In their disrtict they were served daily to keep up thier raining since they are careers. And training is all they do back home to prepare for the Hunger games. 

3. What important information does Rue provide?
Rue provides Katniss with very important information about the careers. Rue tells Katniss everything she needs to know about The careers base. Rue has been in to spy on them briefly, but she's observant. She knows where they have set up and where thier supply stash is loacted. She lets Katniss know that they have a guard for whatch. Its a boy from District 3. Rue knows what weapons he holds and everything. 

4. What is Rue's favorite thing? How does this connect to Katniss?
Rue favorite thing is music. She loves singing. In her district they sing at home and at work too. She loves singing to the mockingjays. That why she loves Katniss gold pin she has. This is how it relates to Katniss. Rue tells her that they are her special friends back home. They sing back and forth with her all the time. They can even send messages. 

5. Why can't Katniss get to the bounty of supplies? How is she able to destroy it?
Katniss is unable to get to the bounty of supplies because she knows it has been booby trapped. she see's that it has been trapped with mines that were set up by the boy from District 3. Katniss is able to destroy it because she starts to throw her arrows at a bag full of apples. She knows the arrows will make a whole and let the apples fall onto the mines. And indeed it does happen. Each arrow she threw loosened the whole and all apples roll out onto the mines and everything explodes.! 

Important Quotes (4 minimum)
1. "That the Careers have been better fed growing up is actually to their disadvantage, because they don't know how to be hungry. Not the way Rue and I do. " (208) 
2. "I think of concealed pits, descending nets, a thread that when broken sends a poisonous dart into your heart . Really, the possibilities are endless."  pg. 216
3. "For a moment, everything seems frozen in time. Then the apples spill to the ground and I'm blown backward into the air." pg. 221
4. I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be."(pg.209)

Hunger Games Chapter 15 Comprehension Questions

Chapter 15

1. Who forms an alliance with Katniss?
Rue forms an alliance with Katniss. Katniss allows this because rue did save her from the careers by letting her know about the nest. If she wanted her to die she never would have told her about it. she tells Rue that she's smart ennough to even be alive. She trusts Rue.  She also reminds her sometimes of Prim of how little she is and everything. 

2. How does this alliance benefit both parties?
The alliance benifits both Rue and Katniss because both minds can work togther to beat the careers. Two and two is better than one left by itself. Both Katniss and Rue have supplies they can gather up to have sufficient needs towards both. They can use eachothers supplies for things they dont have. Like Rue uses some of Katniss ointment for her burns and Rue helps Katniss with her stings with a method Rue knows from back home that involves some leafs from the arena she found. And Katniss shares her captured food with rue. 

3. What are some differences between District 11 and District 12?
There are alot of differences between district 11 and 12. District 11 is based on agriculture and district 12 is based on coal mining. Rules in District 11 are worse than they are in district 12. Rue says that they're not allowed to eat the food they harvest because they'll get whipped publicly. Katniss was showcked because there are hardly any public whippings in her district. And she always thought that District 11 citizens could eat thier harvested food. she was wrong. I guess the mayor is district 11 whatches his pople carfully while in Katniss's district she wished they payed more attention to her District. 

Important Quotes (4 minimum)
1. " I wonder what gale made of the incident for a moment and then i push the whole thing out of my mind because for some reason Gale and Peeta do not coexist well together in my thoughts. " pg. 197 
2. "I enter a nightmare from which I wake repeatedly only to find a greater terror awaiting me. All the things I dread most, all the things I dread for others manifest in such vivid detail I can't believe they're real."  pg. 195
3. The weapons give me an entirely new perspective on the Games. I know I have tough opponents left to face. But I am no longer merely prey that runs and hides or takes desperate measures. If Cato broke through the trees right now, I wouldn't flee, I'd shoot.  pg. 197
4. " It's interesting, hearing about her life. We have so little communication with anyone outside our district.  pg 203 

Hunger Games Chapter 14 Comprehension questions.

Chapter 14

1. Who helps Katniss escape from the Careers? How?
Rue helps Katniss escape from the careers. They both are up in seperate trees but while in the tree Rue points to Katniss that their is a tracker jacker nest above her. Katniss gets an idea of what to do. She decides to saw off the nest from the branch and make it drop right above the careers. It works but there was a point where she knew she was probably going to get bit by the tracker jackers. when she did get bit, it wasnt as bad as it was for the careers that had the whole nest fall ontop of them. The tracker jackers swormed everywhere and attcked every one of the careers. They all ran off. 

2. What does Haymitch send Katniss?
Haymitch send Katniss a small pot of ointment. it was to heal her burned wounds. it was Katniss's first gift. she was very pleased with it because it worked. it gave her burnes a cool sensation. she was happy that her sponsers took in time to send her this. 

3. What does Katniss get from Glimmer's body? Why is this so important to her?
Katniss gets  her bow and arrow from glimmers body. The bow and arrow was the first weapon she had her eye on in the cornucopia. she just didnt have time to get it first. This weapon is soo important to her because she knows how to use it very good.  its her favorite and she knows she'll be able to kill forsure now.

4. What does Peeta do when he finds her?
Peeta tells Katniss to get up and leave.! He's screaming at her to goo! Katniss thinks he's mad. He doesnt say anything but pushes her to get out of here.  Katniss was confused at what just happened.  Why couldnt he have just killed her there. Instead he risked his life for hers because Cato came up from behind Peeta as he let Katniss runn off. He saved Katnis's life. 

5. What are the effects of the tracker jacker stings on Katniss?
The effects of the tracker jacker stings on Katniss made her hallucinate things. It left her confused as she awoke thenext day.  The poisen sinking in leaves your body wracked and feeble.  They get swore and swollen. 

Important Quotes (4 minimum)
1. "Tucking my knees up to my chin, I wait for death. Sick and disoriented, I'm able to form only one thought: Peeta Mellark just saved my life."(pg.194)
2. "Darkness has given me a brief reprieve, but by the time the sun rises, the Careers will have formulated a plan to kill me."  pg. 186
3. " I inch back down to my fork to find the best surprise I've ever had. Sitting on my sleeping bag is a small plastic pot attached to a silver parachute. Oh, Haymitch, ' I whisper. ' Thank you. ' He has not abandoned me. Not left me to fend entirely for myself. "  (188)
4. "But these are the Hunger Games, and ordinary isn't the norm. More likely they will be one of the Capitol's muttations, tracker jackers. Like the jabberjays, these killer wasps were spawned in a lab and strategically placed, like land mines, around the districts during the war."(pg.185)

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Hunger Games Chapter 13 Comprehension Questions



1. What new threat does Katniss face?
A new threat Katniss faces is having the woods on fire! she awakes and finds herself in the buring woods. She gets up and runs as fast as possible to escape. Then fireballs the size of big apples start shooting out from the sky. Its gotten so dangerous for her. All of a sudden her pants catch on fire. Her leg gets burned from the incident. Katniss is worried about her breathing because all the smoke she is inhaling is getting her breathing bad. 

2. How do the Gamemakers control the events of the Games?
The gamemakers sit in a room full of controls. They can control the game by a push of a button. They can trigger anything that could end your life in a second if they wanted. They only use this to heat up the moments in games. If they see that there is no action, they can do whatever they want to the game to make it more interesting for the audience. The last thing they want is for their people to get bored with the show. They need excitment to keep the show going.

3. What slows Katniss down? 
Katniss's burned leg slows her down. she burned her leg from the fireballs thrown at her. Its affecting her alot. she knows she cant go on walking for much so she  settles on a tree. Her hands were also not in good condition. They got small burns from the fire. It was hard for her to climb the tree because of her hands. she still did it though. Her breathing was still another problem for her. all that smoke made it bad. 

4. Who finds her?
All the careers find plus petta find her up in the tree while they whatch her from down below. They try shooting her from below. Later they decide to wait for her to come down by herself. they realize she has no where else to go. They sit at the trunk of the tree gathered all togther and just wait. Katniss has no problem she lays their in the tree thinking of a plan. as she her eyes wander into the other trees she see's a pair of eyes. at first thinking it was some sort of animal, but she then looks closely and see's its no animal. Its Rue!

Important Quotes (4 minimum)
1. "The real sport of the hunger games is watching the tributes kill one another."pg.177
2. "I'm fast, though, and by the time they've reached the base of my trunk, I'm twenty feet up. For a moment, we stop and survey one another. I hope they can't hear the pounding of my heart."  pg. 181
3. "There's no time to judge if a move is the correct one. When there's a hiss, I act or die"(pg.175)
4. "In the last dim rays of light, I make her out, watching me silently from between the branches. Rue."(pg.184)

Hunger games Chapter 12 Comprehension Questions

1. What is Katniss struggling to find?
Katniss is struggling to find water. All the walking, and running for the past days has gotton her really tired. She hasnt drank water! She's getting dehydrated fast. She needs it really badly so she can survive. When she had peed dark brown urine; that was a big sign that that wasnt healthy. She needs to get it fast! The only place she knos there is water; she cant go to it because thats where she thinks the careers are camping out at. She comes up with the idea of probably folling an animal or something because she knows they find water. 

2. In what ways is Katniss “playing the game”?
Katniss is playing the game by being one step ahead of it all.  She doesn’t want to act confused or puzzled about the whole thing about Peeta fighting with the careers. She wants to acts as if she already knows and has nothing against it. She doesnt want to show any emotion towards it. 

3. Why doesn’t Haymitch send Katniss water?
Haymitch doesnt send Katniss water because he knows she's close to it and knows that she will eventually find it. She continues looking for water because he's not giving it to her. Katniss starts to think that he's not sending her water because he hates her and maybe he's probably drunk But then again he might juss be sending her a sign.  She later on findd a pond and realizes Haymitch was right. 

Important Quotes (4 minimum)
1. " I just get a glimpse of Peeta, lit by a torch, heading back to the girl by the fire. His face is swollen with bruises, there's a bloody bandage on one arm, and from the sound of his gait he's limping somewhat."  pg. 161 
2. "Until I work out excatly how i want to play that, i'd better at least act on top of things. Not perplexed. Certainly not confused or frightened. No, I need too look one step ahead of the game." (Pg. 164)
3. My thoughts turn to Prim. It's likely she won't be watching me live, but they'll show updates at the school during lunch. For her sake, I try to look as least desperate as I can.(pg.169)
4. "There's a slight, sweet scent that reminds me of lillies. My fingers stroke the smooth ground, sliding easily across the top. This is an okay place to die, I think."  -Page. 170