Legendborn

Reading Check and Short Answer questions on key points are designed for guided reading assignments, in-class review, formative assessment, quizzes, and more.

PROLOGUE-PART 1, CHAPTER 9

Reading Check

1. What is the name of Bree’s friend from home?

2. What does Bree call the part of her personality that came about from the loss of her mother?

3. What is Sel’s title?

4. Who is Bree’s peer mentor?

5. What creature chases Bree and Nick?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. How did Bree’s mom die?

2. What were Bree and her mother fighting about right before she died?

3. How does the Dean of Students punish the girls for leaving campus?

4. Why does Bree want to join the Order?

Paired Resource

UNC’s Early College Program

• This resource explains the early college program that Bree and Alice enroll in. It is a real program at UNC Chapel Hill.
• Do you think this program would be good for you as a student? Why or why not?  

PART 2, CHAPTERS 10-25

Reading Check

1. What is the item that Nick gives Bree to mark her as his page?

2. What time period were the metal manacles from?

3. What does the Oath of Fealty give pages?

4. What does Sel’s magic smell like to Bree?

5. What does the Order call the heirs to each knight’s lineage?

6. What type of rootcraft did Bree’s mom practice?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. Who are vassals?

2. Why does Sel not trust Bree?

3. What does Bree learn about Nick’s lineage from Will in the basement?

4. Why does Bree’s dad pick Patricia as her therapist?

5. What is Abatement?

6. What is the first trial?

8. Why doesn’t Nick’s mom remember him?

Paired Resource

“Why Black Therapy Is Important—and Why Black Therapists Are Essential”

• This article explains why people of color often look for therapists of color. It helps explain why Bree’s dad might have specifically looked for a black therapist for Bree.
• Connects to the theme of Generational Trauma.
• Why might it be important to have support from people who have similar life experiences?  

PART 3, CHAPTERS 26-40

Reading Check

1. What do they call the child born in Louisa’s memory walk?

2. What are all Merlins (including Sel)?

3. What is the second trial?

4. What shape do the shadowborn that attack Sel and Bree take?

5. What kind of root magic does Mariah have?

6. Who offers to help train Bree for the combat trial?

7. Who opened the gate that Bree saw in the memory walk?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. What is Patricia’s root magic ability?

2. What does Bree see while watching Ruth in the last memory?

3. How does Nick react when Sel admits he was suspicious of Bree?

4. Why does Patricia refer Bree to another therapist?

5. Why is Vaughn kicked out of the tournament?

Paired Resource

“Statues of Confederate Figures, Slave Owners come Down Amid Protests”

• This article describes the recent movement to remove statues of people who were known slave owners or Confederate figures.
• Connects to the theme of Generational Trauma.
• What are the arguments for removing statues of slave owners or Confederate soldiers and leaders? What are the arguments for keeping the statues in their original location? Which side do you support?

“Aether Definition in Alchemy and Science”

• This is the history of the science behind what Sel discusses in the tunnels. Aether was thought to be the fifth element in the world around us.
• Connects to the theme of White Magic and Black Magic.
• What is the relationship between “magic” and “science”?

PART 4, CHAPTERS 41-58

Reading Check

1. Who called Bree’s dad for a visit?

2. Who has been opening the gates around campus?

3. What is the Order’s door to the underground tunnels?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. What happens when Bree touches her mother’s favorite charm bracelet?

2. How does Bree find something to wear for the gala?

3. How does the gala react when Nick picks Bree to be his squire?

4. Why is Bree able to pull Excalibur from the stone?

5. What does Bree do at the very end of the story?

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