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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From whose bread does Achilles not take a bite?
(a) Poke.
(b) Bean.
(c) All children under the age of six.
(d) Any child older than twelve.

2. How does Bean access restricted areas in the station's main computer?
(a) By using his extra names and passwords.
(b) By pretending he has been assigned to work on the hardware.
(c) He tries but is unable to access the main computer.
(d) By going into Captain Dimak's personal computer and getting a password.

3. How do the students get to the lower levels of the space station?
(a) Elevators.
(b) Sliding down poles.
(c) Escalators.
(d) The space station is all on one level.

4. How does Bean get his name?
(a) Bean's uncle.
(b) Bean's brother.
(c) Poke says he is not worth a bean.
(d) Sister Carolotta names him that after seeing how many beans he eats.

5. What is said about Achilles' leg?
(a) It is hollow and he keeps a knife inside.
(b) It is wooden.
(c) It is crippled.
(d) It has a tattoo.

6. What second function do the students' desks serve?
(a) As health monitors.
(b) As beds.
(c) As pad computers.
(d) As means of communicating with Earth.

7. What does Sister Carlotta believe about Bean?
(a) He is a plant by the enemy.
(b) He is the product of a genetic experiment.
(c) He has several siblings in two other continents.
(d) His parents are placed high up in the world council.

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

9. How old does Sister Carlotta think Bean really is?
(a) 9.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 7.

10. Who is the top gamer when Bean arrives at the station?
(a) Nikolai.
(b) McCoy.
(c) Bean.
(d) Petra.

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

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

13. Who does Bean suggest to Poke that they intimidate?
(a) Bonzo.
(b) Sister Carlotta.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Petra.

14. What does Ender not know about the members of his team?
(a) That they all owe Graff a special debt.
(b) That they all have higher IQs than Ender.
(c) That they all are several years younger than Ender.
(d) That they were all chosen by Bean.

15. What does Sister Carlotta decide to do concerning Bean as revealed in Chapter 6?
(a) Send Bean's description to various scientific communities.
(b) Research projects that could have produced Bean.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Take DNA samples and run them through a data base.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the main drawbacks to Bean going to battle school?

2. What does Bean witness on his way to Battle School in Chapter 5?

3. Who does Graff suspect wrote a brilliant analysis of space war strategies?

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

5. What is one of Bean's main disadvantages?

(see the answer keys)

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