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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What allows Ender to be friends with some of his launch group in Chapter 5?

2. What does Ender say he learned from living with Peter?

3. Where is the Giant’s Drink found?

4. Why does Graff say Ender can’t be free?

5. What does Graff try to convince Ender to do in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ender get past the Giant’s Drink?

2. Why does Ender think he will never be friends with Peter?

3. What does Dap refuse to do which infuriates Bernard?

4. How does Ender deal with the bullying from Bernard?

5. What is a third and why is it so significant?

6. Why does Peter hate Ender?

7. What makes Ender decide to go to Battle School?

8. How does Ender shock everyone in the game room?

9. What is the Giant’s Drink?

10. What are Peter’s ambitions in life?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do the characters touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

Essay Topic 2

War

a. How does the theme of war present itself in this book?

b. What are some of the different ideas of war in this book?

Essay Topic 3

The importance and influence of family relations is a very strong theme present in this book. What are some of the instances of this theme, and which characters were most affected by the presence of this theme?

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