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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do some of the older kids do at the soup kitchen?
(a) Not let the younger ones into the lines.
(b) Volunteer to serve the food.
(c) Wait to eat until the younger kids have eaten..
(d) Give part of their food to the younger kids.

2. What do the kitchen adults think when they observe a fight between Achilles and another?
(a) They misinterpret what happened.
(b) They think Achilles is the instigator.
(c) They think it is a psychological study of street orphans.
(d) That the children should learn how to survive at a young age.

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

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

5. Where does Bean see Poke's corpse?
(a) In the crew's sleeping area.
(b) A dumpster.
(c) The river.
(d) Behind the soup kitchen's back door.

6. How do the adults know where the students are?
(a) Through a chip injected in the arm of the students.
(b) Through a sensor in the students' uniforms.
(c) Through video monitoring.
(d) By the mainframe monitoring their DNA signature.

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

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

9. How does Poke die?
(a) Fall from the roof.
(b) Throat slashed.
(c) Gunshot.
(d) A fast-acting virus.

10. What is a launchy?
(a) A new student.
(b) A boat used for rescue operations.
(c) A small craft that is launched out of a bay of a larger craft.
(d) A combat stick.

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

12. About whom does the person Dimak speaks to warn Dimak?
(a) Achilles.
(b) Ender.
(c) Carlotta.
(d) Bean.

13. What concerns one of the higher-grade officers about Bean?
(a) That Bean will not listen to orders.
(b) That Bean will never learn how to command.
(c) That Bean will receive special treatment.
(d) That Bean will be a flash in the pan.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From whose bread does Achilles not take a bite?

2. What does Bean decide he needs to do after realizing the floor vents are not useful?

3. What does the person to whom Dimak speaks say is intimidating?

4. Why do students climb ladders?

5. Who contacts Dr. Volescu?

(see the answer keys)

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