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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which member(s) of Day's family does the military kill during the raid on Day's family's house?

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

3. What unfair fighting tactic does June's opponent in the fight use?

4. How old was Tess when Day met her?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

7. 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?

8. What country do Day and June live in, and what does the government tell them is the cause of the war their country is in?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay that compares and contrasts the contemporary American government with that of the Republic. Support your ideas with evidence from Legend and from accurate, authoritative sources on the history, structure, and policies of the American government.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the use of Los Angeles as a setting in Legend. Support your ideas with evidence from the text.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay that uses evidence from Legend to support, qualify, or refute the following statement: "The authors of dystopias reveal their fears about their own societies through the fictional societies that they create."

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