Chapter 16 Questions

    Chapter 16

1. What is Katniss' offensive attack?

     She said she was going to destroy the careers supplies. Which would be an offensive attack because she attacking them instead of waiting for them to attack her.

2. In what ways are the Careers at a disadvantage?

     The careers were always well fed. So they don't know how to feed themselves. If they have no food supply they can starve.Which is why Katniss is going to try to destroy their food supplies.

3. What important information does Rue provide? 

       She tells Katniss that there are supplies near the lake the careers are at. There stacked up in a pyramid surrounded by crates. When the careers leave they leave the boy from district 3 in guard with a spear. BU t he isn't near it much for a reason. hen that there is a good hiding spot near the lake where the careers can't see you.

4. What is Rue's favorite thing? How does this connect to Katniss?

    Her favorite thing is music. Rue likes to sing with the mocking birds in her farm. It connects with Katniss because sang with the same birds with her dad. Then they both know they can mimic notes you sing.

5. Why can't Katniss get to the bounty of supplies? How is she able to destroy it? 

      She can't get Some supplies because they placed mines around it. They were put there by the boy that was guarding it. She destroyed the supplies because she shot some arrows at a sack of apples hanging on the basket. Then when it fell it blew up a mine that triggered the others.

        QUOTES

• "Today we take out the careers' food. I say. Really? How? You can see the glint of excitement in her eyes." (pg 210) 
• "Don't worry I'll think of something. Destroying things is much easier than making them." (pg 211)
• "My proximity to the careers' camp sharpens my senses, and the closer I get to listen to them, and the more guarded I am, pausing frequently to listen for unnatural sounds, an arrow fitted into the string of my bow." (pg 214)
• "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)  

Chapter 15 Questions

  Chapter 15

1. Who forms an alliance with Katniss? 
      She teamed up with Rue the twelve year old girl from district ll. Who before helped her escape the careers when she was trapped on a tree.

2. How does this alliance benefit both parties?

    Katniss knew how to hunt animals with her bows' and could set up snares. And  Rue knew of some medical plants and some good hiding places. Also she knew how to send messages through mocking birds

3. What are some differences between District 11 and District 12?
       In district eleven the death penalty is more serious. Like the kid who took some night vision glasses. Or when a person steals food from the farms. In district twelve when Katniss hunts she gives the peacekeepers meat and it is okay because the peacekeepers are lenient.But since district 11 is a farming district and everyone's hungry they have to be more strict.
    

QUOTES=

• "You know they're not the only ones who can form alliances, I say. For a moment, no response. Then one of Rue's eyes edges around the trunk. You want me for an ally." (pg 200) 
• "Watch. the closer we get to the end, the more people will realize how clever you are." (pg 201)
• "They don't need to. They have all those supplies, Rue says.Say they didn't. Say the supplies were gone. How long would they last? I say. I mean it's the hunger Games right." (pg 206) 
• "An offensive plan. I think we're going to have fix that Rue" (pg 207)

Chapter 14 Questions

  Chapter 14

1. Who helps Katniss escape from the Careers? How?

       A girl named Rue helps her. She doesn't say much at first when she comes. But then Rue told Katniss of the tracker jackers on the branch. Which Katniss later drops on top of the careers. But also getting stung herself.

2. What does Haymitch send Katniss?

       Haymitch gives her a medical ointment  for the burns she got from the fire. Which helps her when she's cutting the branch with the tracker jacker's nest on it.

3. What does Katniss get from Glimmer's body? Why is this so important to her? 

     Katniss gets the bow and arrows that Glimmer had gotten. There important to her because it is an advantage she has.She can take out careers with it from a far. And she can hunt with it now. So now she has an actual chance at winning unlike before where she only had a knife.

4. What does Peeta do when he finds her?

       He tells her to run because the other careers where coming behind him.Which is weird because he was suppose to be helping the careers. So maybe he isn't that evil like Katniss thought at first when she saw him with them. 

5. What are the effects of the tracker jackers stings on Katniss?

     The stings injected a venom into her. The venom affected her in the brain making her have illusions of her worst fears like Prim dieing which she saw countless times while she was poisoned. It also made her feel weak and  wobbly. Then after a while the stings will swell up.

      QUOTES

•  "Given my circumstances, I guess it doesn't matter what type of wasp nest it is. I'm wounded and trapped." (pg 186)
• "Oh Haymitch, I whisper. Thank you . He has not abandoned. Not left me to fend entirely for myself" (pg 188)
•   " I trip and fall into a small pit lined with orange bubbles that hum like that tracker jacker nest. Tucking my knees up to my chin I wait for death." (pg 194) 

• "Peeta Mellark just saved my life. Then the ants bore into my eyes and  I out." (pg 194)

Cornucopia

They filled it up with weapons in the Hunger Games.

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Chapter 13 Questions

Chapter 13

1. What new threat does Katniss face?

    Katniss faced a huge forest fire. She tried to escape it but didn't know where to go. So she tried to follow  a pack of wild dogs. But she couldn't keep up with them.

 2. How do the Game makers control the events of the Games?

    The game makers control the events in the games by placing traps and tricks like poisonous. If the games get  to boring they try to trick the tributes to come face to face by using things like fires. 

3. What slows Katniss down? 

   A burn from a fire ball that came from launchers hidden in the rocks and trees.. It burned her hands and calf. The smoke also made it worse because it made her fell like her lungs were on fire.

 4. Who finds her? 

     Peeta and the group of career tributes find her but she was on a tree so they couldn't reach her. One of them tried to climb the tree but ended up falling instead. And  another one tried to shoot Katniss with a bow and arrow but her aim was off.

   
 QUOTES

• "This fire is designed to flush us out, to drive us together. It may not be most original device I've seen, but it's very very effective." (pg 173)
• "Katniss, the girl who was on fire. What a good laugh the game makers must be having over that one. Perhaps, Cinna's beautiful costumes have brought on this particular torture for me." (pg 177)
• "I almost faint at the sight of my calf.The flesh is a brilliant red covered with blisters." (pg 179)
•  "This could be it, I think. What chance do I have against them? All six are there, the five career and Peeta, and my only consolation is they're pretty beat-up, too." (pg 181)

Chapter 12 Questions

Chapter 12

 1. What is Katniss struggling to find?

     Katniss is struggling to find water.She is so thirsty that when she peed the urine was dark brown. Which is definitely not healthy.

2. In what ways is Katniss “playing the game”? 

       By playing the game she means she's surviving. She is surviving by camouflaging and eating bunnies. She's also playing the game by playing with the cameras. She's playing with the cameras by giving them looks as if she's thought up a plan.

3. Why doesn’t Haymitch send Katniss water? 

    Haymitch isn't sending her water because  he knows that she is close to water. But Katniss thinks its because he either despises her or he's drunk. But little by little  she knows that he's in fact trying to help her but can't always be giving her stuff since its not cheap.

Important Quotes (4 minimum)

•  "Obviously, the noble boy on the rooftop was playing just one more with me. But this will be his last." (pg 162)
•  "something I already knew, but I'm so thirsty it takes her reminder to give me the strength to fling them away." (pg 166)
• "Then I know. There's only one good reason Haymitch could be withholding water from me. Because he knows I've almost found it." (pg 169)
• "It's not yet dawn, but my stinging eyes can see it. It will be hard to miss the wall of fire descending on me." (pg 171)

Chapter 11 Questions

Chapter 11

 1. What is the Cornucopia?

    The Cornucopia is a big basket. This Cornucopia has supplies of what the tributes need. But to get the supplies they need to fight for them. And unfortunately the most useful things are the ones farthest away.And the least useful are the closest. The Cornucopia is 20 feet high. 

 2. How does Katniss make it into the woods? What weapons does she choose? Why?

    Katniss  makes it into the woods with blood splattered on her face. Because when she was picking up a small bag, a boy started fighting her for it but then a career threw a knife at his back and he spit out blood which unfortunately landed on Katniss's face.And when she's running the career throws a knife at her head but Katniss blocks it with her bag.she chose the bag because she didn't want to leave with nothing.

  3. Why is Katniss angry at the tribute who starts the fire? Who is hunting in the pack?

    She was mad because the fire could attract  the other tributes making her an easy target.Which later attracts a career pack which is a pack of tributes who their whole lives have been trained to fight.But for some reason Peeta was in it.

   Important Quotes (4 minimum)

•    "But the sun's in my eyes, and while I'm puzzling over it the gong rings out. And I've missed it! I've missed my chance!" (pg 150)
•  "I allow myself to pause, panting as I count the shots. One ... two ... three... and on until they reach eleven. Eleven dead in all. Thirteen left to play." (pg 153) 
• "I hear the pack heading toward me. They do not know I'm here. How could they?" (pg 160)
• "We're wasting time! I'll go finish her and let's move on! I almost fall out of the tree. The voice belongs to Peeta." (pg160-Peeta)