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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 Anakin declare about Jedi knights that makes Qui-Gon sad?

2. What does Anakin say about Sebulba and the race?

3. What kind of dream does Anakin have the night before the Podrace?

4. Who races past Anakin and is a big rival of his?

5. Where does Anakin go when Qui-Gon goes outside with Anakin's owner?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Qui-Gon see Jar Jar and how does Obi-Wan feel about it?

5. What does Nute Gunray do when the Jedi Knights come aboard his ship and what is he ordered to do?

6. What would happen if Anakin's Podracer had contact with any solid surface?

7. What happened when Anakin and his friends met an old space pilot? What did he tell them and what did Anakin think?

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

9. Who does Anakin meet in the canyon and what does he do?

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

Despite the fact that multiple viewpoints prevail in the world of the novel, it is not surprising, if by this point in the book the reader is feeling increasingly put-upon as a result of being forced to jump from one hero to another.

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

2. When you read a book do like to stay with one character and or viewpoint for the entire book or do you like it when the author skips between different characters or sub-plot lines? Why or why not?

3. Do you think the story thus far could be told by sticking with only one main "hero?" Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

At the Jedi temple, Qui-Gon and Anakin are shocked to learn that the Council has decided not to admit Anakin for training - the main reason being that he is too old and already has too much anger in him.

1. Why do you think anger would disqualify Anakin from becoming a Jedi? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Choose an occupation in modern America you believe would be bad for someone with a lot of anger. Explain why you chose that particular occupation.

3. Has anger ever interfered with a situation in which you or someone you know, have been? Explain the situation and how being angry interfered with it.

Essay Topic 3

The action of the race is pure thrills - escalating to an exciting finish, using all the "bells and whistles" of the science-fiction form, but actually following in the pulp fiction tradition of macho competitive struggle employed by man and machine.

1. What do you think is meant by pulp fiction tradition of macho competitive struggle?

2. What do you think is the "bells and whistles" of science fiction??

3. Describe a scene in Chapter 13 that would indicate to a read the book was science fiction, even if the description was all a reader saw.

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