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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During Ender and Novinha's conversation in the garden, Novinha says that she loves and misses Ender ____ than she ever did Libo.
(a) Less.
(b) Equally.
(c) Differently.
(d) More.

2. Who says she is "sick of letting people go"?
(a) Wang-mu.
(b) Young Val.
(c) Novinha.
(d) Jane.

3. Who is Rooter?
(a) Human's mother.
(b) Jane's sister.
(c) Young Val's aunt.
(d) The Hive Queen's daughter.

4. What is the profession of Aimaina Hikari?
(a) Poet.
(b) Physicist.
(c) Gnomic philosopher.
(d) Analytical philospher.

5. How are Miro and Young Val's work styles different when they are on the quest that Jane sends them?
(a) Miro tires faster than Young Val.
(b) Young Val tires faster than Miro.
(c) Miro does twice as much work as Young Val.
(d) Young Val does twice as much work as Miro.

6. What does the ship Peter and Wang-mu use to fly to Divine Wood look like?
(a) A rocket.
(b) An airplane.
(c) A large box.
(d) An aluminum can.

7. Who does Hikari call "assassins of the heart"?
(a) Wang-mu and Peter.
(b) All humanity.
(c) The Lusitanians.
(d) The Japanese.

8. Which of the following is a condition to full entry into the religious order that Novinha has joined?
(a) Death.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Faith.
(d) Children.

9. When Miro leaves Ender at the end of the chapter, "There are Too Many of Us," what action does Ender allow?
(a) Ender says that Miro can have his body.
(b) Ender says Jane and Miro can battle for superiority.
(c) Ender says Miro can marry Young Val.
(d) Ender says Jane can gave Young Val's body.

10. Who does Grace identify as Wang-mu's rival for Peter's love at Jane's deathbed?
(a) Jane.
(b) Novinha.
(c) Plikt.
(d) Grace.

11. How does Jane determine who has the power to influence Hikari?
(a) She intercepts an email.
(b) She calls him.
(c) She reads his mind.
(d) She does not determine who can influence Hikari.

12. According to Malu, how was the sun formed?
(a) God touched a cloud and it spun into fire, becoming the sun.
(b) The sun was not formed, but instead always existed.
(c) The sun developed out of a primordial soup.
(d) Jane made the sun from her anger.

13. Why is Wang-mu aghast when Peter tells her she may step off the ship?
(a) Because men cannot tell women what to do.
(b) Because he is being rude.
(c) Because she believes they are still in space.
(d) Because she is not allowed off the ship.

14. How does the novel Children of the Mind begin?
(a) Ender programs Peter.
(b) Ender sends Peter to Path.
(c) Wang-mu leaves Path.
(d) Peter arrives on Path.

15. Who does Malu refer to as "the god who dances on spider webs"?
(a) The Hive Queen.
(b) Himself.
(c) Jane.
(d) The Biblical God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Ender's debilitated stepson?

2. How does Miro respond to Jane's looming destruction after the shutdown of the ansible networks begins?

3. What epiphany does Wang-mu have after Malu leaves his first visit with Peter and Wang-mu?

4. How does Quim die?

5. When individual ansibles and entire networks go offline, how does Jane feel?

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