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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. What does Bean learn is the key to winning against the Buggers?
(a) They can disrupt the Bugger’s thinking with a sound wave.
(b) They must kill the queen.
(c) They must spread a virus that does not affect humans.
(d) The Buggers will surrender is sprayed with a solution of hydrogen peroxide.

2. What was the location of the command school used for before it became the school?
(a) As a mining facility.
(b) As a way station to deep space.
(c) As a former Bugger base.
(d) As a colony planet.

3. What does Ender do to some of his soldiers in a practice battle in Chapter 18?
(a) He hides them in the walls.
(b) He ties them to the ceiling.
(c) He freezes them.
(d) He sends them out of the room.

4. What does Bean do as he is flown to Tactical School?
(a) Plays computer games.
(b) Talks with Ender.
(c) Sleeps.
(d) Reads tactical manuals.

5. Where in the battle room is the "enemy gate"?
(a) East wall.
(b) Left wall.
(c) Down.
(d) North ceiling.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who takes over the Rabbit army when Bean goes to Tactical School?

2. Who recognizes the danger of someone trying to attack Ender?

3. How does Bean feel about Graff’s assertions about Bean’s father?

4. What does Ender skip with his promotion in Chapter 18?

5. What relation is Dr. Volescu to Julian Delphiki?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Achilles think about doing to Bean in Chapter 17 and why?

2. How does Ender use Bean’s ideas with safety rope in a practice battle?

3. What does Carlotta discover about Bean’s parents, and what do they tell her as to how Bean might have been conceived?

4. How does Ender defeat the Buggers?

5. How does the final confrontation between Ender and Bonzo take place and what happens?

6. What does Graff tell Carlotta about Achilles?

7. What is an ansible and how is it used?

8. Why are Ender and Bean taken out of the Dragon Army?

9. How many are on the team that is going to fight the Buggers, and what does Anderson think about the leadership of that team?

10. How does the schedule of practices change, and how does the Dragon army win a battle in less than a minute?

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