No. The Hunger Games universe is what we would call the future, just like the universe in James Cameron's Avatar. Even the two technologies in the films were the same and well ahead of our time
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Peeta actually said "I don't want to be just a piece of their games" meaning he wants to be himself, and not just another tribute killed off in the Hunger Games. "They" is the Capitol.
An example of a rhetorical question in The Hunger Gamesis:"Are you here to finish me off, sweetheart?" -Peeta Mellark
I don't know where it says it, I think it is in catching fire or it might be in Hunger games at the very end as they step off the train.
It is based off of Halloween.
Boggs is president coin's ( president of district 13, district which was supposedly "blown off the map") right hand man. He sees that what she wants done goes through, but he actually cares alot for katniss regardless of coin's direction