Q 01/05

Who wrote The Hunger Games trilogy?

A) Stephenie Meyer

B) Marie Lu

C) Suzanne Collins

D) Veronica Roth

Answer · why

C) Suzanne Collins

The trilogy has sold more than 100 million copies and placed second only to Harry Potter in NPR's 2012 poll of the top 100 teen novels.

Q 02/05

In The Hunger Games, how many districts must each send two children to the arena?

A) 10

B) 8

C) 11

D) 12

Answer · why

D) 12

The Capitol frames the annual games as punishment for a past rebellion; the last child standing is named victor.

Q 03/05

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is set how many years before the first Hunger Games novel?

A) 40

B) 25

C) 64

D) 50

Answer · why

C) 64

The book had a virtual launch because of the pandemic; the film adaptation followed in November 2023.

Q 04/05

Veronica Roth's Divergent is set in a post-apocalyptic version of which city?

A) Los Angeles

B) New York

C) Detroit

D) Chicago

Answer · why

D) Chicago

Roth wrote it while studying creative writing at Northwestern, just north of the city she was destroying on the page.

Q 05/05

In Divergent, Beatrice Prior leaves her birth faction to join which one?

A) Erudite

B) Candor

C) Dauntless

D) Amity

Answer · why

C) Dauntless

There she takes the name Tris and falls for her instructor, Four.