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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much money does the Republic pay the parents of children who fail the Trial?
(a) None.
(b) 100 Republic Notes.
(c) 1,000 Republic Notes.
(d) 10,000 Republic Notes.

2. What does June say the Colonies have lost more of than the Republic has?
(a) Wealth, due to worker uprisings.
(b) Land, due to flooding.
(c) Population, due to emigration.
(d) Soldiers, due to the war.

3. What plan of June's does Thomas disapprove of?
(a) Her plan to find Day's family.
(b) Her plan to go into the Lake district undercover.
(c) Her plan to pretend to be a black-market seller of plague cures.
(d) Her plan to take a job at a bar at the edge of Alta sector.

4. How old was Tess when Day met her?
(a) 8.
(b) 12.
(c) 10.
(d) 14.

5. What is June's brother's name?
(a) Lemuel.
(b) Metias.
(c) Arden.
(d) Jeshua.

6. What is the reward being offered for Day's capture?
(a) 200,000 Republic Notes.
(b) 50,000 Republic Notes.
(c) 7,500 Republic Notes.
(d) 12,000 Republic Notes.

7. What does Day steal from a shop at the edge of Winter sector and sell to raise money?
(a) Bread.
(b) Vegetables.
(c) Fish.
(d) Wine.

8. What reason does Day give for suggesting that June should stay with him and Tess?
(a) They can make a lot of money together on Skiz fighting.
(b) Her wound will probably take several weeks to heal.
(c) The streets are too dangerous to live in alone.
(d) June is better at stealing food, because the market vendors trust her.

9. What clue from the hospital scene does June think holds a secret that might help her find Day?
(a) Day's knives.
(b) Day's pendant necklace.
(c) Closed-circuit television images of Day.
(d) Day's fingerprints.

10. Who Is Emerson Adam Graham?
(a) A soldier in Jameson's squad.
(b) A Republican Congressperson.
(c) A Colonial spy.
(d) A captured Patriot.

11. What surprising information does Jameson give June about her education at Drake University?
(a) Metias died owing the government money for her tuition.
(b) Questions have arisen about June's grades there.
(c) It is over, and she will graduate immediately.
(d) June is being expelled for her tower climb and absence from campus.

12. What is the name of the friend that Day is with when the story begins?
(a) Fern.
(b) Asha.
(c) Maria.
(d) Tess.

13. When June is first introduced to the reader, why is she in trouble at school?
(a) She left campus and climbed the outside of a building.
(b) She skipped classes for an entire week.
(c) She booby-trapped the class obstacle course.
(d) She mocked a classmate who failed an exam.

14. After he hears the policemen talking while he is under the pier, what is Day afraid might be true?
(a) The government knows where he is.
(b) The government has run out of plague medicine.
(c) The police are searching for Tess.
(d) Eden might have a new kind of plague virus.

15. What is the name of the fighter that Day and Tess bet on?
(a) Stimu.
(b) Shinu.
(c) Graeve.
(d) Kaede.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age did June start at Drake University?

2. How does June end up in the fighting ring?

3. When Day is explaining how the government treats the parents of children who have failed the Trial and he says, "What a thoughtful government," what is his tone (7)?

4. What is the kind of fighting that people gamble on in the Lake sector?

5. Why does Day let his mother think that he is dead?

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