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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 think dying of the plague would be better than?
(a) Having to go through the Trial.
(b) Working in a dangerous job like John and his mother do.
(c) Living as a fugitive.
(d) Serving the Republic as a soldier.

2. Besides his pendant necklace, what item of clothing does Day almost always wear?
(a) A black handkerchief.
(b) A hooded sweat-jacket.
(c) An old newsboy cap.
(d) Leather gloves.

3. Where does the government tell parents that children who fail the Trial are being sent?
(a) Labor camps.
(b) A laboratory.
(c) A psychiatric hospital.
(d) Vocational education.

4. What does Day say is "the most important thing in the world" (136)?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Money.
(c) Family.
(d) Loyalty.

5. Who are the "Patriots"?
(a) A group fighting against the government.
(b) A secret club at Drake University.
(c) The ruling political party.
(d) An elite military group.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Day get into the stairwell at the hospital?

2. Why did Metias miss his induction ceremony?

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

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

5. How old was Tess when Day met her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What conflicting feelings does June have when she is just about to call Thomas to turn Day in?

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 are the things about June that Day finds attractive?

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

5. What are the gifts that Day has brought for his family at the beginning of the book, and what do these gifts reveal about the lives of the poor?

6. What changes in Eden's condition does Day notice during Section 3: Part One of the book?

7. Why is Day the most wanted criminal in his country?

8. What does June tell Tess is "very clever" of her, and how does Tess react to this praise (126)?

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

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

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