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ABOUT THE BOOK
NO SPOILERSIn a flooded Los Angeles ruled by the Republic of America, two fifteen-year-olds take turns telling the story. Day is the Republic's most-wanted criminal, a boy from the poor Lake sector whose Wanted poster shows a different face every time because no one knows what he looks like. When soldiers paint a strange plague mark on his family's door, he breaks into a hospital to steal a cure. June Iparis is the Republic's star prodigy, the only person known to have a perfect score on the Trial every child must take. That same night her older brother, Metias, is killed, and June is certain Day did it. She goes undercover in the Lake sector to hunt him down, but the closer she gets, the harder it is to believe what the Republic has taught her.
Free Battle of the Books questions for Legend
SPOILERSEvery one of these has the same answer, and that is the point. In a real battle the question is read aloud with a dozen other books in play, and students have a few seconds to place it. Here is what a battle might ask about Legend. Use them as a quiz, a trivia round, or BOTB practice.
Where in the book they come from
- Early in the book
In what book are a hospital lab's vials labeled 11.30 Cures all empty?
✓ Answer
Legend by Marie Lu
Day breaks into the hospital's third-floor laboratory hoping to steal plague cures for his family, only to find that the cure vials have run out. He grabs bottles of plague suppressants instead and escapes under gunfire.
- First half
In what book does a fugitive rewire rooftop speakers to talk while staying hidden?
✓ Answer
Legend by Marie Lu
In the Arcadia bank's back alley, June waits in disguise holding up a vial, and Day answers through crackling street speakers he has rewired so she can't tell where he is. June admits to herself it's exactly what she would have done.
- First half
In what book is an enemy spy given away by one slightly flatter brass button?
✓ Answer
Legend by Marie Lu
Watching a captured Colonies spy being questioned at Batalla Hall, June notes his brass buttons and a blue pin that means he was caught near San Diego. One button is slightly flatter than those made in the Republic, so she figures he sewed on a button from an old Colonies uniform himself, a mistake only a Colonies spy would make.
- Second half
In what book does a boy believed dead pull off his cap and say, "It's me, Mom"?
✓ Answer
Legend by Marie Lu
Day's mother has believed he was dead for years, and only his older brother John knew he was alive. With the plague patrol coming for Eden, Day kicks open the door and pulls off his cap, and his stunned mother whispers that this must be a dream.
- Second half
In what book does a girl discover that a boy's failing Trial score of 674 was really a perfect 1500?
✓ Answer
Legend by Marie Lu
Sure that someone as smart as Day could never score so low, June hacks into the Trial database using the methods Metias taught her. Every one of his answers matches her own and his interview and physical scores are perfect, so she is no longer the Republic's only prodigy with a perfect score.
- Near the end
In what book does a girl hand rebels a backpack of reward money and a Level three electro-bomb?
✓ Answer
Legend by Marie Lu
To win the Patriots' help freeing Day, June gives Kaede the two hundred thousand Notes she received for capturing him, plus an electro-bomb that disables guns for two minutes in a half-mile radius. Kaede calls it pocket change to the Patriots but admits it might convince her boss.
