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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. Why does Day let his mother think that he is dead?
(a) It is safer for her.
(b) He is angry at her.
(c) He does not know how to contact her.
(d) It is what his brother asked him to do.

2. How long is Day unconscious before he finally wakes up?
(a) 2 hours.
(b) 2 days.
(c) 4 days.
(d) 4 hours.

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

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

5. Why does the crowd from the fight end up chasing June?
(a) They are angry that she left the fight.
(b) They are trying to get their money back.
(c) They want to take her to a doctor.
(d) They have discovered her real identity.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does June feel after Day leaves to rescue his family from the plague patrol?

2. Why does Day feel guilty for talking so much to Tess about his problems?

3. What does Day dislike about the view of the lake from underneath the pier?

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

5. What is the name of the Trial adminstrator?

Short Essay Questions

1. When she is in the Lake sector, what does June remember Metias saying about the poor, and what causes her to think of this?

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

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

4. 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?

5. After five days there, how does June's attitude toward the Lake sector change, and how does it stay the same?

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

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 is Day doing when the story begins?

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

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

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