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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What prompts Sister Carlotta to look into Bean's origins?

2. Who does Bean suggest to Poke that they intimidate?

3. What organization does Sister Carlotta represent?

4. Where do Bean and the new students go after being shown their quarters?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Bean discover that Achilles is a murderer?

4. What does Colonel Graff do when he reads Bean’s diary entry about Achilles?

5. How does Achilles help the younger children of Poke's crew get more to eat?

6. What does Carlotta discover about Bean, and what does she think of her discovery?

7. What does Bean do with the school records of other students in Chapter 11?

8. How does Bean find out about the ventilating system and for what does he decide to use it?

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

10. Why might Graff decide to have Bean lead the next battle against the Buggers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Battle School, though for training children soldiers, is still a school with fairly young students.

What are some of the social, power and educational structures in Battle School which correspond to the schools in present day America?

Essay Topic 2

Buggers and humans live in very different societies.

Discuss the differences between Bugger and human societies including the advantages and disadvantages of both societies.

Essay Topic 3

Graff seems to think Bean is different than all the other students at the Battle School. He even questions if Bean is human.

Discuss the differences and similarities between Bean and the other students at the Battle School. Do you think there is any reason to suspect Bean is not human?

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