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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what crime is Dr. Volescu charged?
(a) None.
(b) Espionage.
(c) Fraud.
(d) Murder.

2. How tall is Bean predicted to become?
(a) Smaller than average.
(b) Average.
(c) Just over average.
(d) A giant.

3. Why do students climb ladders?
(a) To build up endurance.
(b) For punishment.
(c) To gain agility.
(d) To gain the upper levels of the space station.

4. What is the purpose of Achilles' manipulations among the children of the crew?
(a) To help Poke maintain control of the group.
(b) To wrest loyalty of the crew members away from Poke.
(c) To get them to take responsibility for themselves.
(d) To keep the children from thinking about how hard their lives are.

5. About whom does the person Dimak speaks to warn Dimak?
(a) Ender.
(b) Achilles.
(c) Bean.
(d) Carlotta.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the person to whom Dimak speaks say is intimidating?

2. What are the main drawbacks to Bean going to battle school?

3. How does Bean get to know the students in detail in Chapter 11?

4. How does Sister Carlotta react when Bean tells her about Poke?

5. Where does Bean see Poke's corpse?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Carlotta begin to investigate Bean’s origins and what does she think it might be?

2. What does Carlotta learn from Anton about Bean’s DNA?

3. What does Bean learn when he enters the ventilation system again and what does he decide to do?

4. What surprises Dimak about Bean’s thoughts on the war, and what does Bean think about what might happen if the earth should win the war?

5. What does Carlotta discover about Bean, and what does she think of her discovery?

6. How does Bean find information about Ender in Chapter 11, and why does Bean want that information?

7. What are the first two things that Bean sees while using the ventilation system?

8. How does Bean find out about the ventilating system and for what does he decide to use it?

9. Where does Poke live and how does she meet Bean?

10. Who does Bean tell about Achilles being a murderer, and what is Carlotta’s final decision concerning Bean and Achilles?

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