Hunger Games CH 5

Question 1

Kat’s body was left like a plucked bird. What figure of speech is this? What is being compared?

Answer 1

Kat is being compared to a bird that is about to be cooked. Kat is about to be hurt or even die in the Hunger Games.

Question 2

What does Kat compare
Venia and Octavia to?

Answer 2

Kat compares Venia and Octavia to oddly colored birds.

Question 3

How does Kat win over
Venia and Octavia?

Answer 3

Kat wins over Venia and Octavia
by having them feel sorry for her when she tells them that there is
no reason to look good in
District 12.

Question 4

Kat thinks about holding onto a piece of her mother, her home. Why?

Answer 4

Kat thinks about her mother when she touches the braids in her hair that her mother did for her. She remembers that she left her mother’s clothes on the train
car floor.

Question 5

What is Kat’s expectation of
Cinna? Does he meet it? Why or why not? In what way does
Cinna differ from most of the
other stylists working on the tributes?

Answer 5

Kat expected Cinna to be very decorated, dyed, and surgically altered, but he looked more natural.
She expected Cinna to view her as a piece of meat being prepared for a platter, but he did not.

Question 6

Why do you think that Cinna asked to be placed with District 12? You’ll have to guess because we don’t know yet.

Answer 6

Perhaps Cinna has a
personal connection to
District 12?

Question 7

How might Kat spend her time if she didn’t have to constantly search for food. She wonders what it must be like to have food
available at the press of a button.

Answer 7

Maybe Katniss would spend her time making bows and arrows?
Or plotting rebellion against the Capitol? Or spending time with her friends and family?

Question 8

What is the customary dress for the tributes at the
opening ceremonies of the
Hunger Games?

Answer 8

The customary dress for tributes is a costume that
reflects their district’s
industry.

Question 9

Describe Kat’s costume at the opening ceremonies?

Answer 9

Kat wears a black leotard with a flaming cape and headdress at the opening ceremonies.

Question 10

What does Kat think of Cinna? What crosses her mind about him?

Answer 10

Katniss thinks that Cinna acts calm and normal, but it crosses her mind that Cinna might be a madman because of the deadly costume.

Question 11

Why do you think Cinna looks weary? You’ll have to guess because we don’t know yet.

Answer 11

Maybe Cinna comes from outside that
Capitol (Kat tells us that his accent is not as strong as the others) and is unhappy to be there doing this job?
Maybe he doesn’t like the Hunger Games. He appears different from the others -physically and personality.

Question 12

What is the Remake
Center compared to?
What is the effect of this statement?

Answer 12

The Remake Center is compared to a “gigantic stable.” The effect of this statement makes if feel like the tributes are cattle being herded into a stable.

Question 13

What do the tributes being pulled by chariots allude to?

Answer 13

The tributes being pulled by chariots alludes to ancient Roman history.

Question 14

What is the Training
Center?

Answer 14

The Training Center is where the tributes go for training.

Question 15

What do the different districts make for the Capitol?

Answer 15

DI: luxury items; D2:; D3:
factories; D4: fishing; D5:; D6:;
D7:; D8:; D9: ; D10: ; D11: agriculture; D12: coal mining;
D13:

Question 16

How does Kat win over the crowd at the opening ceremonies?

Answer 16

Kat wins over the crowd by smiling, blowing kisses, and waving. The crowd showers her with flowers and shouts out her and Peeta’s name.
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Question 17

What advantage does
Cinna give Kat? How will this help her?

Answer 17

Cinna’s costume makes Katniss look impressive. This will help her catch the attention of sponsors who can giver her help, food, and weapons.

Question 18

Kat feels a little excitement at
the opening ceremonies.
Why? How does this help her? Why does she feel hopeful?

Answer 18

She feels excited because of her impressive costume and the reaction of the crowd. This gives her self-confidence. She feels like she can win the Hunger Games.

Question 19

Why do Kat and Peeta hold hands so tightly?

Answer 19

Kat and Peeta hold hands tightly because they feel scared. This provides them a sense of comfort, safety.

Question 20

Why does Kat think it unfair of Cinna to link her and Peeta together?

Answer 20

Kat thinks it unfair of Cinna to link her and Peeta together because only one can survive. Linking them together creates attachment and conflict. They will have to kill the other eventually.

Question 21

Throughout the story, we get the feeling of connection between Kat and Peeta. Might this be foreshadowing something to come? What?

Answer 21

Connecting Kat and Peeta might foreshadow a growing friendship between them. I can imagine that Kat and Peeta will feel conflicted over having to kill the other. Maybe they will refuse to kill each other at the end and
they both will survive.
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Question 22

Why do the other tributes shoot dirty looks at District
12? What does this confirm for Kat?

Answer 22

The other tributes shoot dirty looks at Kat and Peeta because they think they stole the show.
This confirms that Kat was right, she and Peeta outshone them
all.

Question 23

A warning bell goes off in Kat’s head when Peeta is being sweet to her. What does Kat remind herself? How does she respond?
Why?

Answer 23

Kat remembers that Peeta will have to kill her in the Hunger Games. The more likable he is, the more dangerous he is.
She responds by being sweet back to him to make him think that she likes him
too; she’s on his side.