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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What organization does Sister Carlotta represent?
(a) The Sisters of St. Nicholas.
(b) The society of the Light.
(c) The society of Assisi.
(d) The Sisters of Lorenzo.

2. Where does Captain Dimak take the new students after they eat?
(a) The strategy room.
(b) The exercise room.
(c) To meet with each of their mentors.
(d) To meet with the school's commandant.

3. Who realizes how the adults keep tab on the students?
(a) Bean.
(b) A new student named Price.
(c) A new student named Onion.
(d) One of the older students tells the new students.

4. What is Dimak's reply to the warning he is given in Chapter 6?
(a) That nothing has ever intimidated the enemy before.
(b) That Captain's Madrid's insolence is hiding insecurity.
(c) That anyone would feel slow-witted around Bean.
(d) That Dimak is not intimidated.

5. What does Colonel Graff talk to Captain Dimak about concerning Bean?
(a) Bean's acing of the latest round of battle simulations.
(b) Bean's altered DNA.
(c) Bean's insubordination.
(d) Bean's failure to help the other students.

6. What is the name of the Captain who confronts Bean in Chapter 5?
(a) Dimak.
(b) Arkanian.
(c) No name is mentioned.
(d) Madrid.

7. Why does Bean want to have several user names and passwords?
(a) To keep his personal life separate from his school life.
(b) To keep his activities secret from the teachers and officers.
(c) To harass other students anonymously.
(d) To keep his parents from finding him.

8. On what city's streets does Bean survive?
(a) Rotterdam.
(b) Pretoria.
(c) Cairo.
(d) London.

9. Why won't IF accept Achilles?
(a) Because he is crippled.
(b) Because he is mixed race.
(c) Because of his psychological profile.
(d) Because his parents won't give permission.

10. Who becomes known as the Papa of the crew?
(a) Mongo.
(b) The cook at the kitchen.
(c) Bean.
(d) Achilles.

11. What does Bean observe after leaving the conference between Graff and Dimak?
(a) A teacher entering a name and password in the computer system.
(b) An engineer breaking an essential part of the hyperdrive.
(c) Ender beating Bonzo in a video game.
(d) Ender re-writing some computer battle plans.

12. What does Bean witness on his way to Battle School in Chapter 5?
(a) An adult in a fist fight with another adult.
(b) A company commander about to commit suicide.
(c) A young boy crying by himself under a tree.
(d) An adult purposefully humiliating a new student.

13. What does Bean decide he needs to do after realizing the floor vents are not useful?
(a) He needs to get into the intake system.
(b) Use a computer layout program to erase the monitoring system.
(c) Snake a video cam through each vent.
(d) Remove the sound absorption materials.

14. Why does Bean refuse to play the desk game?
(a) He thinks it's boring.
(b) It is too hard.
(c) It would reveal too much about him.
(d) It is too violent.

15. What is the purpose of Achilles' manipulations among the children of the crew?
(a) To keep the children from thinking about how hard their lives are.
(b) To wrest loyalty of the crew members away from Poke.
(c) To get them to take responsibility for themselves.
(d) To help Poke maintain control of the group.

Short Answer Questions

1. What concerns one of the higher-grade officers about Bean?

2. How does Achilles help the younger children of Poke's crew?

3. What does sister Carlotta obtain from Colonel Graff?

4. What is one way Bean sets into motion his decision about Ender in Chapter 11?

5. What do the kitchen adults think when they observe a fight between Achilles and another?

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