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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Remove the sound absorption materials.
(d) Snake a video cam through each vent.

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

3. Who takes the new students, including Bean, to their quarters?
(a) Captain Malory.
(b) Captain Primod.
(c) Captain Dimak.
(d) Ender.

4. What does the person to whom Dimak speaks say is intimidating?
(a) Captain Madrid's insolence.
(b) The new battleships the World Council wants built.
(c) Bean's intelligence.
(d) The intricate layout of an upcoming battle scene.

5. Where does Dr. Volescu claim he got genetic material?
(a) From paid volunteers.
(b) From other doctors in the project.
(c) From a sperm bank.
(d) From his own DNA.

6. What kind of threat do Colonel Graff and Captain Dimak discuss while Bean is observing them?
(a) If Sister Carlotta's information could be a security threat.
(b) If bringing Achilles to the station would be a threat.
(c) If Bean is a security threat.
(d) If the Formics have entered the neighboring galaxy.

7. What is one of Bean's main disadvantages?
(a) His small stature.
(b) His natural kindness.
(c) His great height and girth.
(d) His arrogance.

8. How old does the kid appear to be that Poke sees on top of a garbage can?
(a) 15.
(b) 6.
(c) 12.
(d) 2.

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

10. What does Sister Carlotta discover Bean can do that the other members of his crew cannot?
(a) Read.
(b) Manipulate large sums of numbers in his head.
(c) Communicate psychically.
(d) Telekinesis.

11. With whom does Sister Carlotta speak in Sofia, Bulgaria?
(a) An exiled Russian scientist.
(b) An artificial intelligence computer.
(c) A metals tycoon.
(d) Bean's grandmother.

12. Why does Bean have to move through the ventilation system naked?
(a) He does not go naked; he wears a grease suit.
(b) So he can feel the electrical impulses in the cables.
(c) His clothing gets caught on the barbs.
(d) So the sensor does not track him.

13. How does Bean meet Petra Arkanian?
(a) She is the corpsman assigned to do his physical.
(b) She confronts him when he is in an unauthorized area.
(c) She assigned as his mentor.
(d) She is his dorm leader.

14. What does Sister Carlotta learn about Bean's DNA?
(a) It has been significantly altered.
(b) It has been altered in a very small and undetectable way.
(c) It has not been altered.
(d) She cannot learn anything about Bean's DNA.

15. For what is Mazer Rackham noted?
(a) Saving Ender's life.
(b) Rebelling against IF authority.
(c) Killing the Queen of the Formics.
(d) Leading the strike force that defeated the invasion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Helga Braun contact?

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

3. Where does Captain Dimak take the new students after they eat?

4. What is said about Achilles' leg?

5. What does Bean observe after leaving the conference between Graff and Dimak?

(see the answer keys)

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