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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. The descoladores have designed a molecule that would fit into the human brain's receptor node for _____.
2. Why are the networks among the Hive Queens familiar to Jane?
3. What is the name of the influential businessmen who visit Yasujiro Tsutsumi?
4. After Jane leaves Ender's body where does she go?
5. When Jane returns to her new body to begin her existence as Val, her aiua is so vibrant that it also entwines with something else? What is this other object?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is visiting Yasujiro Tsutsumi when Aimaina Hikari arrives, and how does Yasujiro Tsutsumi respond to Hikari's arrival?
2. What experience does Jane have for the first time in her 3,000 year existence in response to Quara, and what realization does she come to because of this?
3. When Jane returns to her now body to begin her existence as Val, what happens to her aiua and to Val's aiua?
4. Describe Jane's exploration of the networks among the Hive Queens.
5. What is on the latest molecular blueprint that Quara receives from the descoladore planet and what does she suggest the implication is?
6. What delicate and subtle presence does Jane encounter after exploring the networks of the Hive Queens, and how does the interaction between Jane and this presence play out?
7. Aboard Milo's starship, how does Quara act toward everyone and specifically towards Jane?
8. Describe how Jane transports Peter and Wang-mu aboard the Starways Congress starship and where they land on the ship.
9. Describe how Peter responds to waking on the beach with Wang-mu curled in beside him.
10. As Jane enters Young Val's body, what happens?
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 how the themes of benevolence and survival play out against each other in the search for a new home for Jane's aiua throughout the novel.
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