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Hunger Games Pre Reading Vocabulary

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is an area of a country or city, especially one regarded as a unit because of a particular characteristic shared by the area?

a)

district

b)

black market

c)

utopia

d)

arena

2.

Who is a person in Ancient Rome who would fight in an arena against other people or animals, in front of an audience?

a)

peacekeeper

b)

reaping

c)

gladiator

d)

black market

3.

What is to cut or gather crops or a harvest?

a)

utopia

b)

treason

c)

arena

d)

reaping

4.

What is a group of areas or states that are all controlled/ruled by a single state or person- the ruler of an empire would often be called an emperor or empress?

a)

utopia

b)

republic

c)

empire

d)

arena

5.

An imagined place or way things are in which everything is perfect is a utopia.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

6.

An act of resistance or rebellion, a revolt is called an uprising.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

7.

A state controlled by police or military forces, often where citizens' activities are secretly watched by the government is called a black market.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

8.

To be charged with betraying ones's country is

a)

treason

b)

gladiator

c)

arena

d)

reaping

9.

a place where competitions, sporting events or spectacles take place, typically a flat space surrounded on all sides with seats for spectators

a)

utopia

b)

empire

c)

arena

d)

republic

10.

trading, selling or buying things that are illegal according to the laws of the country, or doing so in an illegal way

a)

peacekeeper

b)

police state

c)

gladiator

d)

black market

11.

government by the military, or putting aside the usual laws of a country or area for a time to be ruled by the military

a)

black market

b)

martial law

c)

police state

d)

gladiator

12.

in Latin, this means "bread and circuses"- a phrase that is used to mean policies that keep the masses of people in a country fed and entertained (and therefore theoretically "happy" or at least distracted).

a)

dystopia

b)

republic

c)

empire

d)

Panem et Circenses

13.

a state in which supreme power is held by the people and the representatives they elect to make laws for them. Has an elected or nominated president rather than a king or a queen.

a)

utopia

b)

republic

c)

Panem et Circenses

d)

empire

14.

an imagined place or way things are in which society is all or mostly negative. For example, dystopias are often pictured with very controlling governments or in worlds with severe environmental damage

a)

dystopia

b)

republic

c)

empire

d)

utopia

15.

How do you feel about reading a dystopian book?

a)

Excited

b)

Meh

c)

Bored

d)

Not interested