Hunger Games Temperature Check #1

Who is the narrator?

• Primrose

• Gale

• 3rd Person omniscient (unknow, not part of the story)

• Katniss

What is the reaping?

• The ceremony when tributes are chosen for the Hunger Games.

• A ceremony when tributes who have died are buried and honored.

• The first day in the District during the Hunger Games.

• The battle where kids compete to become tributes.

How old do kids have to be to be eligible for the reaping?

• 8 years old

• 12 years old

• 18 years old

• 16 years old

What is the Hob?

• A secret market where people sell and trade items like food.

• The town square where the reaping happens.

• The store that Katniss's mother runs.

• The nickname for the mines where Katniss's father worked.

What happened to District 13?

• It was bombed by enemies of Panem.

• They had issues with fertility due to their industry of nuclear energy and after a few generations no more babies were born and everyone died off.

• It was overtaken by a deadly virus and everyone died. It was closed off from other districts to avoid spreading the virusIt was overtaken by a deadly virus and everyone died. It was closed off from other districts to avoid spreading the virus.

• They tried to rebel against the Capitol and failed.

Who is the first name called for this year's Hunger Games?

• Petta Mellark

• Primerose Everdeen

• Gale Hawthorn

• Katniss Everdeen

What does it mean when members of the crowd touch three fingers to their lips and then hold that hand up?

• It is what District 13 did whenever someone volunteered as tribute.

• It is what District 13 did during the rebellion to signify unity.

• It is what Katniss's father did to say goodbye before he died in the mines.

• It is an old tradition from funerals meaning thanks, admiration, and goodbye.

Who visits Katniss before she is sent off to the Capitol?

• Greasy Sae and Peeta's father

• Madge, Prim, her mother, Petta's father, and Gale

• Gale & Petta

• Haymitch, Effie, Greasy Sae, and Gale

What was Katniss's first encounter with Petta?

• At school when Prim was being bullied and he stepped in to help, but Katniss never thanked him.

• When she was starving and he gave her burned loaves of bread that his mother wanted to toss to the pigs.

• She had passed him in the Hob when trading squirrels for butter.

• During the reaping is the first time they meet.

Who is Haymitch Abernathy?

• Petta's father, the baker

• Gale's father

• Katniss's father

• The only District 12 victor still alive