Movie vs. Book Answer Key
1. What is wrong with Buttercup in the movie?
They use a black/white cat in the movie, but Buttercup is described as an ugly yellow cat.
2. How does Katniss get the Mockingjay pin in the movie?
Greasy Sae at the Hob
3. How old is Katniss in the book when Peeta gives her the bread?
11
4. How does Peeta (in the book) symbolize survival for Katniss?
He gives her the bread and, the next day, when she goes to thank him, she sees him
standing over a dandelion and realizes she can survive off the land.
5. What aspect of the Hunger Games does the movie show that the book does not?
The gamemakers (and managers) at work.
6. The movie doesn’t show this, but how did Rue travel in the arena?
From tree to tree by jumping
7. What did the silver parachutes have in the movie that was illogical in terms of survival?
An obnoxious beeping sound
8. What’s the difference between the movie and book: how does Katniss get away from
Peeta to get the medicine?
In the book Katniss uses a sleeping draught to make Peeta pass out. In the movie Peeta
simply falls asleep.
9. Who dies in both the movie and book by eating nightlock?
Foxface
10. What happened to Peeta’s leg in the book but not the movie?
It is amputated.
11. Both the book and movie end with Peeta and Katniss doing this.
Holding hands
12. What is Seneca Crane’s fate in the movie?
He is locked in a room with a bowl of nightlock berries (implying that he will eat the
berries and die).
13. What does Haymitch famously do on stage in the book but not in the movie?
Drunkenly falls off the stage.