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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. What technique is being used when John tells Day, "I would rather die than see them hurt you" (275)?

2. When he is talking to Thomas, what interesting thing does Day learn about Kaede?

3. What does Day resolve to do if June's rescue plan fails?

4. What interrupts Thomas's interrogation of June?

5. What does Day see on a door as he is being taken from the interrogation room to a cell?

Short Essay Questions

1. What conflicting emotions does Day have about June when she walks into the interrogation room?

2. After Day is recaptured during his escape attempt, what story does Jameson tell him?

3. What two separate concerns does June have after Thomas tells her that the execution time has changed?

4. What advice does Metias give June about her actions after she learns the truth about the Republic?

5. What does the reader learn about John from June's thoughts about questioning him?

6. How does June react to the shooting of the protesters?

7. When June visits him on the rooftop, what arguments does Day give her for believing that the Republic is deliberately spreading the plague?

8. What reward does June get for Day's capture, and what does she do with the reward?

9. What is June's plan for freeing Day?

10. What does Jameson tell Day about his appearance?

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

Toward the end of the book, June and Day discuss how they might have been changed as people had they been born into opposite circumstances. Write an essay that uses evidence from the text to argue whether, had they been born in opposite circumstances, June would have ended up as a criminal and Day would have ended up a Republican soldier.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay that analyzes the symbolic significance of Skiz fighting in Legend. Support your ideas with evidence from the text.

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