Mrs. Kandido's Advanced Reading Test

1. In The Hunger Games, we just found out who had a crush on Katniss for a long time. What is his name and how did he tell her?

Peeta told her in training.

Cinna told her during her makeover.

Gayle told her while they were hunting in the woods.

Peeta told her during his interview with Caesar.

Haymitch told her while he was drunk.

2. TRUE OR FALSE:
Katniss kills Zlata

True

False

3. TRUE OR FALSE:
Nina kills Katniss

True

False

4. TRUE OR FALSE:
Zlata kills Katniss

True

False

5. Is The Hunger Games fiction or non-fiction?

Fiction

Non-fiction

6. Zlata wrote in her diary that she wasn't going to school. Why not?

She didn't like school.

She was too sick to go to school.

She moved to Paris.

She did not get her homework done so she skipped school.

Schools were being bombed and closed.

7. In Zlata's Diary, what musical instrument does Zlata play?

Saxaphone

Drums

Piano

Clarinet

Harp

8. In The Hunger Games, what unfortunate color is the backpack Katniss picks up at the beginning of the games?

Red

Yellow

Orange

Green

Blue

9. In Zlata's Diary, many families are moving from their homes but not because they want to, it is because they have to in order to stay alive. What the word for this?

Moving

Travel

Vacation

Driving

Exile

10. What continent is Bosnia-Herzgovinia part of?

South America

Europe

North America

Africa

Australia

11. The narrator and main character of The Hunger Games is...

Cinna

Peeta Mellark

Haymitch Abernathy

Katniss Everdeen

Effie Trinket

12. In The Hunger Games, during her private session with the game makers, what was the result of Katniss shooting the apple in the pig's mouth with her bow and arrow?

They cut off her tongue so she turned into an Avox.

Katniss scored an eleven.

Haymitch told her she would never win now.

Katniss scored a twelve.

The game maker who fell in the punch bowl fired her.

13. In The Hunger Games, what does Katniss use to hold her arrows?

Quilt

Quintessential

Quiver

Quilt

Quagmire

14. What is the word that means to hide or blend in with surroundings; the disguising especially of military equipment or installations with paint, nets, or foliage?

Camper

Camouflage

Cameleon

Slippery

Soldier

15. In The Hunger Games, Caesar dyes his hair to match the hue of his eyelids and lips every year. What does hue mean?

Creative

Outlined

Color

Shiny

Matching

16. Is Zlata's Diary a work of fiction or non-fiction?

Fiction

Non-fiction

17. TRUE OR FALSE:
In Zlata's Diary, Zlata lives with her parents and her sister Katniss in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

True

False

18. In Zlata's Diary, Zlata had many friends in Sarajevo. But after the war started, most of them moved away to avoid the danger. One of her closest friends was killed when "a piece of shrapnel lodged in her brain and she died". What was this dear departed friend's name?

Martina

Bojana

Matea

Sarah

Nina

19. Just like Romeo and Juliet, everyone keeps referring to Katniss and Peeta as star-crossed lovers. What does that mean?

They get five stars for being so lucky in love.

An unlucky pair of lovers that fate will end the relationship in tragedy.

They are movie stars and famous for being in love--like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

That they are in love like the stargirl Ariel Freeman.

Their astrological signs cross in the sky--like Aquarius and Pisces.

20. Read this exerpt from Zlata's Diary and then answer the question.

Excerpt: "I'm writing to you again by the light of one of my favorite candles. I lit it with a heavy heart." page 88

Question: What does 'heavy heart' mean?

It means that the candles were heavy.

Her heart feels overweight and she needs to go on a diet.

Melancholy; depressed; sad. When your heart is weighted down by sorrow.

She had a heart-shaped lighter or matches.

21. The copyright of The Hunger Games is 2008 and the copyright of Zlata's Diary is 1994, which author wrote her book first?

Suzanne Collins

Mrs. Jackson

Zlata Filipovic

Mrs. Forte

Mrs. Kandido

22. In The Hunger Games, Katniss was supposed to gush when Caesar asked her questions about the Capitol. Instead, she took Cinna's advice and was honest. When asked what has most impressed her about the Capitol in contrast to District 12, she said what?

Katniss said that Shanita Leeper was most impressive.

Katniss said the lamb stew with dried plums was most impressive.

Katniss said the chariot ride was most impressive.

Katniss said the make-up artists were most impressive.

Katniss said the fiery costume was most impressive.

23. In The Hunger Games,why is being emaciated a bad thing?

Because it means you are starving and too thin to be healthy.

Because it means you are an Avox.

Because it means that you are an enemy of the Capitol.

Because it means that you hate food.

24. In Zlata's Diary, Zlata just got a new cat. What did she name the cat?

Grbavica

Miljacka

Cici

Dubrovnik

Cicko

25. Zlata refers to the shellings and the city being shelled. What is she talking about?

Her city of Sarejevo had to be protected

Shells are the outside of a turtle used to protect in war, like a Zulu shield.

Shells are an artillery projectile, cartridge case dispersed when the container burst after leaving the gun

She lives near the ocean and shells are abundant.

26. What do Zlata and Katniss have in common?

They both think that Lil Wayne is cute.

They know what it is like to go without water due to hard times.

They are learning to survive something difficult at a young age.

They are from the same country.

Both B and C

27. This is the flag from which country?

District 12

The Capitol

Bosnia

Europe

Bosnia-Herzgovinia

28. Zlata lives in what country?

Yugoslavia

Bosnia

Herzgovinia

Bosnia-Herzgovinia

Europe

29. In The Hunger Games, Katniss is mad about Peeta's statement on TV. However, Haymitch thinks it did her good. Why does he think so?

Haymitch thinks Peeta's statement made the two a better competing pair.

Haymitch thinks Katniss shouldn't be with Gayle.

Haymitch thinks Katniss and Peeta would make a good couple.

Haymitch thinks Peeta made a fool of himself and now Katniss looks better in contrast.

30. In The Hunger Games, catacombs are beneath the arena where the launch room is. This is where Katniss prepares for the games, but the Districts call the launch room the stockades. What does the definition of catacomb and stockade have in common?