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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. Where is the command school located?

2. How do Bean and his witnesses leave Achilles?

3. Where do Nikolai's parents live?

4. How does Anderson think the team will respond to Bean or Ender as team leader?

5. For what is the ansible used?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bean do on the way to Tactical School and what is the team taught at Tactical School?

2. How does Ender organize his army and how do the members feel about the way he does it?

3. Why do Ender and Bean have a confrontation in Chapter 13?

4. What does Bean discover about the key to fighting the Buggers and how is the war going?

5. What does Bean learn about Achilles at the Battle School, and how do Bean and Achilles get along?

6. What do members of the Salamander army threaten and what does Bean do when he sees them?

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

8. Who helps Bean during the argument among the Dragon members, and why does he help Bean?

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

10. What does Graff tell the team about the war after Ender’s last battle and what do they hear in the Command School?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Bean’s DNA has been manipulated to make him possibly the smartest person on earth.

Discuss the ways in which Bean’s life has been affected by the genetic work done on him.

Essay Topic 2

Identify the protagonists of the story and why you believe they are such. Identify the antagonists of the story and why you believe they are such. Which three secondary characters have the greatest impact on the plot? Which, if any, characters are not essential to the story?

Essay Topic 3

Ender’s Shadow belongs to the science fiction genre.

Define the literary term "genre" and name three other genres in addition to the science fiction genre. What are the advantages and disadvantages of assigning a genre to a novel? What do you think is the difference between a science fiction and a historical novel or mystery?

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