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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 Valentine comfort Ender about when he comes home in Chapter 2?

2. Who is Ender compared to after his confrontation with Stilson?

3. What is Graff’s job?

4. What are Buggers?

5. What has made Ender an outcast?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ender do to Stilson, and why?

2. What upsets Ender so much when he gets past the Giant’s Drink?

3. How does Valentine get Peter to leave Ender alone?

4. What does Dap refuse to do which infuriates Bernard?

5. What is a third and why is it so significant?

6. How does Ender become the highest rank soldier in Salamander Army?

7. How does Peter feel when Graff comes to talk to Ender?

8. How does Ender get past the Giant’s Drink?

9. How does Ender deal with the bullying from Bernard?

10. What makes Ender decide to go to Battle School?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The passage of time becomes relative in this book. Why is this, and how does this affect the tone of the book?

Essay Topic 2

Ender and Graff have a very strange bond. What is this bond like, and how did it come to be?

Essay Topic 3

Ender goes from hating to liking Graff. What causes this change in his opinion, and what is Graff’s response to this change?

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