Q 01/05

Marie Lu's Legend is set in a flooded, fortified future version of which American city?

A) San Francisco

B) Seattle

C) Los Angeles

D) San Diego

Answer · why

C) 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...

Q 02/05

Marie Lu wrote Legend as a teenage take on which classic tale of a policeman pursuing an ex-convict?

A) Les Misérables

B) Great Expectations

C) Crime and Punishment

D) The Count of Monte Cristo

Answer · why

A) 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 ...

Q 03/05

At the start of Marie Lu's Legend, fifteen-year-old Day is known across the Republic as what?

A) Its most hunted deserter

B) Its most wanted criminal

C) Its most feared rebel leader

D) Its most dangerous spy

Answer · why

B) 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 04/05

As a small child, Legend author Marie Lu was at which landmark hours before troops crushed a protest there?

A) Red Square

B) Wenceslas Square

C) Tahrir Square

D) Tiananmen Square

Answer · why

D) 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 famil...

Q 05/05

In Marie Lu's Legend, which army captain raises his younger sister June after their parents die?

A) Chian

B) Metias

C) Baxter

D) Razor

Answer · why

B) 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.