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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Ollie?
(a) June's dog.
(b) Metias's boss.
(c) Metias's assistant.
(d) June's classmate.

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

3. What does Day notice is different about "the Girl" (June) compared to other Lake sector girls?
(a) She has a strange accent.
(b) She has paler skin.
(c) She seems more educated.
(d) She is more secretive.

4. After he hears the policemen talking while he is under the pier, what is Day afraid might be true?
(a) The government knows where he is.
(b) Eden might have a new kind of plague virus.
(c) The police are searching for Tess.
(d) The government has run out of plague medicine.

5. Why does Day feel guilty for talking so much to Tess about his problems?
(a) She never complains about her own problems.
(b) She does not have a family of her own.
(c) He knows that she has a crush on him.
(d) He knows that it worries and upsets her.

6. What does Day steal from a shop at the edge of Winter sector and sell to raise money?
(a) Vegetables.
(b) Fish.
(c) Wine.
(d) Bread.

7. In the dream that he has on the night that he kisses June, what is different about the dream Day has about his family?
(a) June is in the dream.
(b) Day's mother seems to be angry at him.
(c) Eden is singing one of the Republic's anthems.
(d) John and his mother are fighting.

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

9. What does June say the Colonies have lost more of than the Republic has?
(a) Land, due to flooding.
(b) Wealth, due to worker uprisings.
(c) Soldiers, due to the war.
(d) Population, due to emigration.

10. What is the name of the friend that Day is with when the story begins?
(a) Tess.
(b) Maria.
(c) Fern.
(d) Asha.

11. When Day tells June that she is attractive, what does she tell him?
(a) That he is also attractive.
(b) That he should not talk to her that way.
(c) That looks do not matter.
(d) That he is lying.

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

13. How much money does the Republic pay the parents of children who fail the Trial?
(a) 1,000 Republic Notes.
(b) None.
(c) 100 Republic Notes.
(d) 10,000 Republic Notes.

14. What is the name of the musical artist that Day finds out that June likes?
(a) Washington.
(b) Roosevelt.
(c) Lincoln.
(d) Kennedy.

15. Who points out that "most of Day's past crimes involve saving people" (123)?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Jameson.
(c) Tess.
(d) June.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the fighter that Day and Tess bet on?

2. Who tells June that she is "not alone out there unless [she chooses] to be" (94)?

3. What does Day often make from PVC pipes?

4. What causes Tess to wake suddenly when she and Day are camped out underneath the pier?

5. When Day reaches his family's house, just ahead of the medic trucks, what does he notice about the sea daisies under the porch?

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