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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 Padmy do when she asks Boss Nass to help her?

2. What is the final result of the fight between Qui-Gon and Darth Maul?

3. What does Qui-Gon tell the Jedi Council about the Sith?

4. What does Senator Palpatine tell the Queen most Senators spend their time doing?

5. Where have the Neimoidians been shipped to prison?

Short Essay Questions

1. What types of strategies does Sebulba try in the race?

2. Where does Anakin end up during the fight for Naboo?

3. What do Anakin and Jar Jar hear when they sneak out of their quarters?

4. What happens when the Queen attends the Senate meeting?

5. What happened between Anakin and Padmy after the cruiser was in the air?

6. What happens at the beginning of Anakin's most important race?

7. What happened between Qui-Gon and Darth Maul by the Queen's cruiser?

8. What does Padmy tell Anakin right before the battle and what does he say?

9. What happens when Padmy, the Jedi and her troops enter the hanger?

10. Where is the decoy Queen and her group during the battle with the droid army?

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

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 3

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.

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