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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 is Day's mother's name?

2. Who is "the prisoner in 6822" (253)?

3. What does June do with Thomas's knife?

4. What quality does Day say that Eden has more of than either of his older brothers?

5. What dangerous natural event takes place in this final section of the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Thomas takes June home after the ball?

2. What reasons does June have for not wanting to believe what Day tells her about the government spreading the plague on purpose?

3. When Legend ends, what are Day and June planning to do next?

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

5. What parallel events happen just before Michael Iparis is killed and just before Metias Iparis is killed?

6. When John sees Day just before the execution, what does he tell Day?

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

8. Describe the Republic's real plague program.

9. When Day asks June "Is she alive?" about whom is he talking, and what does June's reply make him think is probably true (171)?

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 makes and defends a claim about the role that social stratification plays in shaping the lives of the characters in Legend. Support your ideas with evidence from the text.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay that explores the forces that shape the elites' belief in their own superiority in Legend. Support your ideas with evidence from the text.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay that compares and contrasts the settings where Legend's elites live with the settings where the poor live. Support your ideas with evidence from the text.

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