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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. What does Jane claim that hearing of Young Val's impending death has caused Miro to realize?
(a) He has very little time to complete his task.
(b) He loves Young Val.
(c) He is also mortal.
(d) He has lost connection with reality.

2. Why does Human say that she does not think Ender will find his way into Peter when he dies?
(a) Because Ender needs Peter's full person.
(b) Because Peter represents the part of himself he most hates.
(c) Because Peter is too weak.
(d) Because moving into Peter would damage him.

3. Who says "Life is a suicide mission"?
(a) Val.
(b) Novinha.
(c) Jane.
(d) Ender.

4. What is causing Young Val to fade away?
(a) She is becoming ill from descolada.
(b) She has always been weak.
(c) She is losing Ender's attention.
(d) She is only an illusion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Novinha do immediately after Ender collapses in "Nobody is Rational"?

2. Why does Jane send Miro and Young Val to different planets?

3. To what character of popular children's literature does Young Val compare herself?

4. When Miro goes to speak to Ender at the end of the chapter, "There are Too Many of Us," what does he ask Ender to do?

5. Grace is a philosopher that writes under the name Grace _____.

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the conversation when Miro goes to speak to Ender.

2. Who claims that "life is a suicide mission," and why?

3. What role does Wang-mu adopt when visiting Aimaina Hikari and why?

4. When Ender tries to reconcile with his wife on Lusitania, what pretense does she give for not seeing him and how does he overcome her excuse?

5. How does Miro convince Young Val to see the Hive Queen at the beginning of "Nobody is Rational"?

6. What does Wang-mu first do when she and Peter land on Divine Wood and why?

7. Describe the Hive Queen's and Human's discussion about finding a way to help Jane transfer to a body.

8. Why do Peter and Wang-mu not have to learn a new language on Divine Wood and what language is spoken?

9. Describe Malu's entrance for his meeting with Wang-mu and Peter.

10. How was Peter called into being and why does this cause problems?

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