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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 Ender's army's gate?

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

3. What does the ten member team learn at Tactical School?

4. What does Bean find out about Achilles when Bean arrives at his new army in Chapter 18?

5. Why is the ansible important to the team?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Carlotta learn about the biological relationship between Volescu and Bean?

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

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

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

6. What does Ender do with his team in the battle room in Chapter 13, and why is Bean at a disadvantage?

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

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

9. What does Bean plan to do with the safety cord he gets from supply?

10. How does Ender defeat the Buggers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Characters are an integral and important part of almost all novels.

Compare/contrast the characters of Bean and Ender. How are they similar? How are they different? Is there a flaw in each of their personalities? Be specific and give examples. Compare/contrast the characters of Achilles and Nikolai. How do they seem different? Which do you like more? Why? Which one seems more of a well-rounded character?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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