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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 type of creature is Jar Jar Binks?

2. Where are the Jedi going to get to the capital city?

3. What does Padmy find out that makes her fear for the race results?

4. Why does Obi-Wan not want Qui-Gon to help Jar Jar?

5. What does Anakin ask Padmy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Nute Gunray tell Darth Sidious and what is Sidious's reply? How does Gunray feel about what Sidious says?

2. What happens to Jar Jar when walking through the market?

3. What type of dream does Anakin have the night before the race? How does he leave the dream?

4. Why is Watto angry with Anakin and what happens?

5. What do Anakin and Padmy look at and talk about when they get to his house?

6. What kind of deal does Qui-Gon make with Watto besides the one for the parts?

7. What is one of the tricks of being a successful slave and what are Anakin's secrets?

8. What do we find out about the history of the Sith in Chapter 10?

9. How did Jedi Knights originate and what do they do in the present of this novel?

10. What do the Jedi Knights see in the main hanger that shocks them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

It seems as if Anakin has already embraced Qui-Gon's philosophy of following one's intuition at the time one's senses are alert to an opportunity.

1. What do you think is meant by this statement? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Do you think one should follow intuition even if it seems contrary to logic? Why or why not?

3. Write about a time when you followed intuition or didn't follow it and how the situation turned out.

Essay Topic 2

The author has laden an insight about life that underlies many of the thematic threads of The Phantom Menace - the fact that exterior appearance does not necessarily indicate the intrinsic value of human beings, and in the case of science fiction, alien life forms as well.

1. What do you think is meant by this statement? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Describe a time when you or someone you know of, has thought one thing about a person and then was proven wrong after getting to know the person.

3. How does the statement above relate to the clique "you can't tell a book by its cover?"

Essay Topic 3

Anakin has a unique relationship with Padmy. She is a mother figure, which is seen clearly when she holds him in her arms to soothe his deep sorrow at being parted from his mother. She is also a sister figure, and a potential romantic figure, as evidenced by the feelings he has for her that would rightly be described as "puppy love," but which, with his limited experience of life, he cannot identify.

1. What do you think is meant by this statement? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Describe a person in your life who seems to fill more than one "role."

3. Do you think a person can fulfill more than one "role" in a person's life, such as brother, friend, father, mentor, etc. Why or why not?

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