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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 is the new penance she added to the Catalog of Voices?

2. How much time has passed on Earth since Valentine and Jakt left?

3. Why is Descolada an issue?

4. What shocks Qing-jao about Wang-mu?

5. What does Miro reassure Jane with when she is troubled?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why can't the Lusitanian colonists just wipe out the descolada virus?

2. Qing-jao's behavior once again leads Wang-mu to question the gods. Why?`

3. What does Han impress upon his daughter in regards to Demosthenes?

4. What is different for Miro when he returns to Lusitania?

5. Why does Miro find contact with people painful?

6. What does Jiang-qing believe is particularly responsible for Han's doubt of the gods?

7. Why does Jane believe that Qing-jao will succeed at her woman's task?

8. What concerns Ender about the hive Queen?

9. Jane realizes that Qing-jao is getting close. How does she believe she can get her to stop?

10. What is the significance of the Path to the Godspoken?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Grego and Human are both acting unreasonably and cannot be reasoned with. Imagine you are a negotiator and have to put up logical reasons why this war should not continue against two illogical and irrational beings. Write a convincing argument as to how this war could have been averted or should have been averted.

Essay Topic 2

There is a chapter that outlines the differences quite clearly of people who are married to their job and who are married to their spouses. Which do you think would be more fulfilling? Define why you believe your choice holds the key to a happy life.

Essay Topic 3

Ender creates copies of his brother and his sister, but also of Miro while the theory of faster than light speed is being tested. Why do you think that this happens? What does this say about Ender? What do Ender's conjurations of his sister and brother reflect about the way he thinks about them?

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