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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Peter called into being?
(a) During the last xenocide.
(b) During his parents' honeymoon.
(c) During Ender's first trip to Outspace.
(d) During the creation of Divine Wood.

2. Orbiting the planet of the Descoladores, which of the following characters is not one of the ones that Miro and Val decide to go home to get?
(a) Peter.
(b) Ela.
(c) Quara.
(d) Hive Queen.

3. How does the Hive Queen warn Miro and Val that she does not want to help them while they are on the way to see her?
(a) She shouts out to them.
(b) She send them an email.
(c) She sends a telepathic message.
(d) She sends a message via a worker.

4. What was the original catalyst for Ender and Novinha's separation?
(a) Ender's affair.
(b) Novinha's entrance into the religious order.
(c) Marcao's interference.
(d) Quim's death.

5. Who goes with Young Val to visit the Hive Queen to seek more information about how to get Jane's aiua into Young Val?
(a) Peter.
(b) Miro.
(c) Ender.
(d) Wang-mu.

6. How old was Ender when he left Earth?
(a) Twenty-five.
(b) Ten.
(c) Five.
(d) Forty-five.

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

8. What is Libo's relationship to Novinha?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her father's friend.
(c) Her former husband.
(d) The father of her children.

9. How does Quim die?
(a) From an arrow to the heart.
(b) From a gunshot wound.
(c) From a bite of a mosquito.
(d) From descolada.

10. What type of colony was Divine Wood originally?
(a) Japanese.
(b) European.
(c) Brazilian.
(d) Chinese.

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

12. Who is Valentine?
(a) Jane's aunt.
(b) Ender's sister.
(c) Peter's mother.
(d) Mrio's cousin.

13. Who is Pipo?
(a) An elder of a religious order.
(b) The colony's original xenobiologist.
(c) The first ever philosopher.
(d) A hobo on the planet Path.

14. Why does Malu suggest Val might be a better host than Peter for Jane?
(a) She is strong enough to handle Jane's temper.
(b) She is more powerful.
(c) She is more gentle and altruistic.
(d) She is a female.

15. How does Wang-mu interpret Malu's story of creation?
(a) As an interpretation of the Bible.
(b) As the ravings of a lunatic.
(c) As an allegory for philotic theory.
(d) As a well designed fable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What task has Peter been assigned that makes his work more interesting to Ender?

2. Who says she is "sick of letting people go"?

3. What causes an awkward moment when Miro speaks with Ender at the end of the chapter, "There are Too Many of Us"?

4. In what language does Malu address Peter and Wang-mu during their first meeting?

5. Why is Wang-mu aghast when Peter tells her she may step off the ship?

(see the answer keys)

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