Legend (Marie Lu Novel)
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50 free Legend (Marie Lu Novel) trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Marie Lu's Legend throws two fifteen-year-olds onto opposite sides of the law. June is the Republic's brightest cadet, raised among its elite and sure of what her country stands for. Day is a boy from the slums whose name is known everywhere and whose face almost nobody has seen. When a killing sets June on his trail, each of them starts to find out how much the Republic has been hiding. This quiz follows the book from its opening pages to the last-minute rescue. Expect questions on Day and June, their families and the people around them, the Trial every child must sit, the plague that sweeps the poor sectors, and the truths uncovered along the way. A smaller group covers Marie Lu herself, the real events and stories that shaped the novel, and where the series goes next. It works as a comprehension check after reading, a revision set for a class or book club, or simply a way to see how closely you were paying attention. The first questions are the gentlest, the later ones reward careful readers, and every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Marie Lu's Legend is set in a flooded, fortified future version of which American city?
Los Angeles
Los Angeles was Marie Lu's choice because she lived there and saw wealthy streets and very poor ones sitting only blocks apart. The novel hardens that divide into gem sectors and slums.
Q 02Marie Lu wrote Legend as a teenage take on which classic tale of a policeman pursuing an ex-convict?
Les Misérables
Les Misérables gave Marie Lu her central pair, with Day growing out of the hunted Jean Valjean and June out of Inspector Javert. She was watching the film when the idea of a teenage version struck.
Q 03At the start of Marie Lu's Legend, fifteen-year-old Day is known across the Republic as what?
Its most wanted criminal
Its most wanted criminal is a boy from the slums who uses his agility and wits to harass the army, raiding military bases and hospitals.
Q 04As a small child, Legend author Marie Lu was at which landmark hours before troops crushed a protest there?
Tiananmen Square
Tiananmen Square is in Beijing, where Marie Lu lived as a small child, and she has said being there that day changed the way she saw things. Her family moved to the United States the same year.
Q 05In Marie Lu's Legend, which army captain raises his younger sister June after their parents die?
Metias
Metias is twelve years older than June and her only family, so his murder while guarding a hospital early in the novel sets the whole story moving.
Q 06In Marie Lu's Legend, what does June discover when she checks Day's supposedly failed Trial result?
He got a perfect score
He got a perfect score of 1500, the same as June, but the Republic recorded a failing 674 and took him away to be experimented on instead of celebrated.
Q 07In Marie Lu's Legend, which young orphan lives on the streets with Day and treats June's stab wound?
Tess
Tess was abandoned by her parents and taken in by Day, and her skill at treating injuries keeps the pair alive on the streets. She nurses June without knowing she is a Republic agent.
Q 08Marie Lu's novel Legend belongs to which genre of young adult fiction?
Dystopian
Dystopian fiction imagines a society gone badly wrong, and Legend's version is a militarised state with no middle class, written as a warning about the gap between rich and poor.
Q 09In Marie Lu's Legend, the Republic of America is locked in a long war with which rival nation?
The Colonies
The Colonies grew out of the eastern United States, and June learns that the Republic's plague was bred partly as a weapon to use against them.
Q 10At the start of Marie Lu's Legend, what do most of Day's relatives believe has happened to him?
That he is dead
That he is dead is what the Republic led them to believe after his Trial, and only his older brother knows the truth.
Q 11In Marie Lu's Legend, which lost possession of Day's lets June work out who he really is?
A pendant necklace
A pendant necklace found where June's brother died gives Day away when, falling asleep, he reaches for it at his throat. The pendant is an old United States coin, his father's last gift.
Q 12In Marie Lu's Legend, which soldier really murdered June's brother, acting on a commander's orders?
Thomas
Thomas grew up alongside the man he killed and owed him his army career, yet he let Day take the blame for the stabbing.
Q 13In Marie Lu's Legend, which young relative of Day catches the plague, driving him to rob a hospital?
Eden
Eden is Day's little brother, a tinkerer he calls a little engineer. The Republic later takes the boy away to study the mutated infection he carries.
Q 21What is the family name of June, the elite Republic cadet in Marie Lu's Legend?
Iparis
Iparis marks June as the daughter of an elite Republic family, a name she shares with the older brother who raises her. Wing, by contrast, is Day's surname.
Q 22In Marie Lu's Legend, the fugitive known as Day was given which first name at birth?
Daniel
Daniel Altan Wing is his full name, and by the trilogy's epilogue he is going by Daniel again instead of his street name.
Q 23In Marie Lu's Legend, what is the name of June's white dog, a present from her brother?
Ollie
Ollie came home with June's brother as a gift, and after his murder she treats the dog as the last piece of family she has left.
Q 14In Marie Lu's Legend, who takes Day's place at his execution so that Day and June can escape?
John
John is Day's older brother and looks so much like him that the Republic announces Day's death. He turns back knowing it will cost him his life.
Q 15In Marie Lu's Legend, where does the Republic claim children who fail the Trial are sent?
Labor camps
Labor camps are a cover story: Day, taken away at ten, found that children who fail are really used for experiments in laboratories.
Q 16In Marie Lu's Legend, which ruthless officer recruits June to her patrol and has Day tortured?
Commander Jameson
Commander Jameson arranges June's early graduation so she can join the hunt, and it later emerges that she ordered the killing of June's brother herself.
Q 17In Marie Lu's Legend, which street-fighting champion stabs June before later helping her free Day?
Kaede
Kaede loses the bout and comes away with a broken arm, yet she later takes June's money to help spring Day from his cell.
Q 18In Marie Lu's Legend, which rebel group does June bargain with to break Day out before his execution?
The Patriots
The Patriots are branded terrorists by the Republic but see themselves as freedom fighters. Their attack on the day of the execution gives June the chaos she needs.
Q 19During the raid on Day's family home in Marie Lu's Legend, which relative of his is shot and killed?
His mother
His mother is shot in the head on a commander's order during the raid. Day charges the soldiers in a rage, is shot in the leg, and wakes up as the Republic's prisoner.
Q 20Which novel is the second book in Marie Lu's Legend series, continuing Day and June's escape?
Prodigy
Prodigy came out in 2013 and sends the pair to join the rebels in a plot against the Republic's new ruler. Champion followed later the same year.
Q 24In Marie Lu's Legend, which top military university admits June years younger than her classmates?
Drake
Drake normally takes students at sixteen but admitted June at twelve, and she graduates early at fifteen to join the search for her brother's killer.
Q 25In Marie Lu's Legend, Day was born and raised in which slum sector of the city?
Lake
Lake is one of the poorest sectors in the Republic, a world away from the wealthy Ruby sector where June's family lives.
Q 26In Marie Lu's Legend, what title is held by the all-powerful ruler of the Republic of America?
Elector Primo
Elector Primo sounds like an elected office, but the man holding it in Legend is accepting his eleventh four-year term and rules as a dictator.
Q 27In Marie Lu's Legend, which son of the Republic's ruler does June meet at a ball in her honour?
Anden
Anden kisses June's hand at the celebration of Day's capture. In the sequel he inherits his father's office and proves far more open to reform.
Q 28In Marie Lu's Legend, June grows up believing that her parents were killed in what kind of accident?
A car crash
A car crash was the official story, but her brother's hidden messages reveal that the government had their parents killed after they learned what the plague was really for.
Q 29Marie Lu's Legend is told in the first person; how is the narration handled?
Day and June alternate chapters
Day and June alternate chapters, so readers hear the same events from both sides of the law as the story passes back and forth between the two fifteen-year-olds.
Q 30Marie Lu has said which real American exam inspired the Trial that sorts children in Legend?
The SAT
The SAT gave Marie Lu the idea of one nationwide test that decides a young person's future; in Legend it is taken at ten and failing it can be fatal.