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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 Sister Carlotta learn at the beginning of Chapter 14?

2. What army does Bean force to defend Ender?

3. How does Bean get witnesses to Achilles’s confession?

4. Where is Ender's army's gate?

5. Who defends Bean when the arguments in Ender's Dragon army break out?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Bean do with his toon at the beginning of Chapter 17 and what does Bean ask Graff?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Bean do with the Rabbit Army in Chapter 21, and why does he do it?

10. How does the schedule of practices change, and how does the Dragon army win a battle in less than a minute?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ender is the person chosen to lead the fleet in the final battle.

Discuss reasons Ender was the right choice for leader and why he might have been the wrong choice.

Essay Topic 2

Oftentimes, a book has more of a character-driven plot rather than action driven, and oftentimes the other way. Some books seem to balance the two.

What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven or action driven? Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why? Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character are developed to the same degree? Why or why not? What type of plot do you think Ender’s Shadow is? Explain your response.

Essay Topic 3

Buggers and humans live in very different societies.

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

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