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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 concerns one of the higher-grade officers about Bean?

2. What does Sister Carlotta believe about Bean?

3. Why do students climb ladders?

4. Where does Captain Dimak take the new students after they eat?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Bean meet Bonzo? Who is Bonzo?

4. What is Bean’s first encounter with a Battle School officer?

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

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

7. How does Carlotta learn more about Bean?

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

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

10. What does Carlotta learn about Bean’s growth rate?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Bean sees Achilles kiss Poke and then later she is found dead. Bean knows that Achilles killed her.

Why do you think Achilles kills Poke, and what is some of the foreshadowing before it happens that may have led a reader to suspect it was going to happen? Use examples from Ender’s Shadow to support your response.

Essay Topic 2

When Poke finds Bean on the streets she takes him into her crew. He shows the crew how to work together to get their needs met.

Discuss the ways in which Bean changes the lives of Poke’s crew.

Essay Topic 3

Sister Carlotta seems to be a kind and caring person even though she recruits children for the military.

Discuss the dichotomy between Carlotta recruiting children for a military, which may or may not harm them, and the fact that she also seems to care about the children.

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