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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the "ten-second place" (71)?
(a) A downtown tower.
(b) The Los Angeles Central Hospital.
(c) An Arcadia bank.
(d) A Lake sector apartment.

2. What kind of education is given to students who get the lowest passing score in the Trial?
(a) None.
(b) High school only.
(c) Two years of college only.
(d) A vocational training program.

3. When Day is visiting his family's house and sees something in the shadows across the street, what technique is being used?
(a) Juxtaposition.
(b) Dramatic irony.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Direct characterization.

4. Why does Day hesitate to kiss June on the first night that he thinks about doing it?
(a) He does not fully trust her.
(b) Falling for her would be a vulnerability.
(c) He is afraid of offending her.
(d) Him kissing June would upset Tess.

5. In what city does the story open?
(a) New York.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Los Angeles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What surprises June about what Day did at the hospital?

2. What convinces Day that June is an undercover government agent?

3. When June sees Day go into the quarantined house, how does it make her feel?

4. What is considered to be a perfect score in the Trial?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the things about June that Day finds attractive?

2. What role does June play in the interrogation of the Colonial spy, and how does she seem to feel about it?

3. Besides Notes, what things does Day take to his family's house at the end of Section 3: Part One, and what does he do with them?

4. What happens when Day is reunited with his mother?

5. Why is June a kind of celebrity at Drake University?

6. What is June's plan for luring Day into meeting her, and what does she hope will happen?

7. When June arrives at the hospital, what does Commander Jameson expect her to do, and why?

8. What does Day wish was possible for Tess, and why does he think it can never happen?

9. What history does Chian have with June and with Day?

10. What is Day doing when the story begins?

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