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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 name of Ender's debilitated stepson?

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

3. Who does Grace identify as Wang-mu's rival for Peter's love at Jane's deathbed?

4. How old was Ender when he left Earth?

5. After Human and the Hive Queen create the largest philotic web ever and cannot locate Jane, what solution do they propose to retrieve her aiua?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the game that goes on as Peter and Wang-mu arrive at Hikara's place.

2. What does the Hive Queen suggest about the mission that Jane is sending Miro and Young Val on and how does Miro confront Jane about this issue?

3. What does Peter tell Wang-mu to do while they are quarreling aboard the faster-than-light ship, and how does she respond?

4. Describe the events surrounding Ender's collapse in the Filho's courtyard.

5. 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?

6. How do Human and the Hive Queen try to capture Jane's aiua, and what conclusion do they come to when they are unsuccessful?

7. By what name does Malu refer to Jane and why?

8. 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.

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

10. Who does Malu think is a better host for Jane's aiua and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Quara finds in a molecular blueprint received from the descoladore planet that the descoladores have designed a molecule that would fit into the human's brain receptor node for heroin. Research the effects of heroin and write an essay exploring the significance of this discovery by the descoladores in the context of the novel.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay examining how the argument that "the ends justify the means" comes into play in the novel regarding the transfer of Jane's aiua into another human's body.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay exploring the different characters responses to the message to stop the detonation of the M.D. device. Consider why each character reacts in the way that they do and why there is such a contrast between the responses.

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