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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 are two secrets Anakin has kept from Watto?

2. What is one of the tricks slaves learn to stay ahead of their masters?

3. Why is Watto upset with Anakin?

4. Why does Anakin invite Qui-Gon and his group to Anakin's house?

5. How does Padmy feel about Qui-Gon's plan for making money?

Short Essay Questions

1. What conversation do Qui-Gon and Shmi have about Anakin?

2. What does Watto order Anakin to do?

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

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

5. Why is Anakin an unusual Podracer and how does he make up for it?

6. What kind of welcome do the three receive in the Gungan city and what does the head man offer?

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

8. What does Anakin find out when he examines the engines of the Podracer and how does Watto usually like to get parts?

9. What are Nute Gunray's orders about the Queen and what happens to her?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Again Anakin has what seem to be prophetic dreams, but this time the dreams have a foreboding element to them. Anakin sees himself older, in a strange place facing a dimly seen wave that moves toward him, led by Padmy who appears to be older and sad.

1. What do you think this dream means? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Write about a dream you or someone else you know had that seemed to have come true.

3. Do you think dreams mean anything in a person's life? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Qui-Gon's sensitivity to living beings and their potential, and his willingness to depart from the well-traveled path in order to deal with them forms the basis of his philosophy of life and of connecting to The Force in a way that few others do.

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

2. Do you think all beings have untapped potential? Why or why not?

3. How do you think a person could explore his/her untapped potential and then use that potential?

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