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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 does Bean learn is the key to winning against the Buggers?

2. For what does Bean negotiate with Graff in Chapter 17?

3. How many other battles have there been with the Buggers?

4. What does Ender do with his Dragon army at the beginning of Chapter 13?

5. In Chapter 17, for what does Bean use the material he gathers?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the final situation with the Russians, and what happens to the children after the war?

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

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

5. What weakness does Bean observe about Ender’s strategies?

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

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

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

9. How does Bean set up Achilles to be submitted to justice?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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

Although the battle is a victory for earth, the entire fleet is killed to achieve it.

Do you think Ender sacrificing the entire fleet was the right choice? Do you think if Bean had been the leader he would have been able to do the same as Ender? Why or why not?

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