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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is Bean's main strategy in Chapter 5 for his time at school?
(a) To stand out and make it through in record time.
(b) To prove he is better than Ender.
(c) To pretend to be dumb.
(d) To not stand out in a crowd.

4. When is it predicted Bean will die?
(a) No one knows when someone will die.
(b) In his late fifties.
(c) In his mid-twenties.
(d) Bean is expected to have a normal life span.

5. What does Colonel Graff offer Bean in Chapter 12?
(a) Command of the Minotaur battle room.
(b) Information about his parents in return for cooperation.
(c) A spot on the roster of the Dragon battle room.
(d) Release from the Battle School.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the purpose of Achilles' manipulations among the children of the crew?

2. How does Poke die?

3. Who realizes how the adults keep tab on the students?

4. What does Sister Carlotta believe about Bean?

5. Why does Bean refuse to play the desk game?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Carlotta consider when she meets Achilles, and what invitation does she extend to Poke’s gang?

2. What does Carlotta learn from Anton about Bean’s DNA?

3. Who does Helga Braun contact regarding Poke’s gang and what does that person do when she comes to see the gang?

4. What does Bean do when introduced to his desk, and why does it do that?

5. How does Bean end up on Ender’s team, and what does he do that Ender does not know?

6. What does Poke do with Bean, and what does he suggest to her?

7. With whom does Carlotta talk about the experiment done on Bean and how does she get the information out of the man?

8. Who does Bean tell about Achilles being a murderer, and what is Carlotta’s final decision concerning Bean and Achilles?

9. What does Bean learn when he enters the ventilation system again and what does he decide to do?

10. Where does Poke live and how does she meet Bean?

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