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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 does Day often make from PVC pipes?
(a) Bombs.
(b) Swords.
(c) Blowguns.
(d) Slingshots.

2. On page 130, why does June find it surprising that Day is smart and interesting?
(a) Because "This is a boy who must've barely passed his Trial."
(b) Because of "how familiar he is with streets far from the Lake sector."
(c) Because "his fingers are calloused from years on the streets."
(d) Because of the way he "made a fancy little dust bomb to get us out of the Skiz mob."

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

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

5. What surprises June about what Day did at the hospital?
(a) He has never killed anyone before.
(b) He has never accepted money for his crimes before.
(c) He does not usually strike at night.
(d) He does not usually work alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does June think makes her smart and will make her a good soldier?

2. What is Day's real first name?

3. What does Tess give Day that she says she found "caught in the folds of [his] clothes" (55)?

4. How much money does the Republic pay the parents of children who fail the Trial?

5. On the morning after the Skiz fight, why does June go down to the water by herself?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Day end up injured and unconscious in an alley near Union Station?

2. How does Tess get injured when she and Day first meet, and how does this injury end up being the start of their friendship?

3. What does June think would be the easiest way to lure Day out of hiding, and why does she think that she will not be allowed to enact this plan?

4. When June checks in with Thomas on the morning after the Skiz fight, what reactions does he have as she updates him on her activities?

5. How does June get into trouble after the fight, and how does Day save her?

6. What does Tess do take care of Day when he is injured?

7. What roles do Day and Tess each take in the betting at the fights, and why do they arrange it this way?

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

9. What details in the text show that June takes her life of privilege for granted?

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

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