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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. When Ender tries to reconcile with his wife on Lusitania, what excuse does she give for not being able to see him?
(a) She is gardening.
(b) She is not in love.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) She is ill.

2. How does Miro respond to Jane's looming destruction after the shutdown of the ansible networks begins?
(a) He hurries about the starship.
(b) He tries to contact her, but fails.
(c) He begins sobbing.
(d) He is elated.

3. What observation does Malu make about Jane's attitude toward her mechanical body?
(a) She doesn't appreciate it enough.
(b) She is fundamentally dissatisfied with it.
(c) She is pleased with her mechanical existence.
(d) She doesn't need it.

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

5. During Ender and Novinha's conversation in the garden, Novinha says that she loves and misses Ender ____ than she ever did Libo.
(a) More.
(b) Equally.
(c) Differently.
(d) Less.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is a condition to full entry into the religious order that Novinha has joined?

3. How does Malu arrive for his first meeting with Peter and Wang-mu?

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

5. Who controls the flight of the spaceship in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ender's attention affect Val in "Life is a Suicide Mission" and how does she react to it?

2. Describe Wang-mu and Peter's initial time settling into their apartment on Divine Wood.

3. How does Old Val compliment Miro to Young Val and why?

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

5. Describe the conversation between Old Val and Young Val about the nature of Young Val's existence.

6. After losing many other men, for what does Novinha tell Ender she will hold him personally responsible and how can Ender avoid this responsibility?

7. Describe Miro and Young Val's arrival at the Hive and what they encounter in the passages on the way to see the Hive Queen.

8. At the beginning of the novel, what does Jane do while Miro and Young Valentine scout for new habitable planets? What will happen after Jane is finished with her task?

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

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

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