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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. Where does Randi hope to live?

2. Where is Bean traveling from when he goes to visit Petra's parents?

3. What surprises Petra when she returns home after war?

4. Which of the following doubts Bean's ability to destroy the successful Middle Eastern Army?

5. What does Petra tell her mother changes people?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Virlomi's third visitor, and what does he ask of her?

2. What does Alai say in his message to his people?

3. What does Virlomi do before she is married?

4. How does Virlomi feel when she is told that she cannot go back to India?

5. Why does Peter have few responsibilities at the end of the book?

6. What important question does Petra ask her mother, and what is her mother's response?

7. Who does Peter want to write his biography, and why?

8. What do Petra and Bean learn when they get to the airport to greet their children?

9. Why does Bean say that he does NOT want to see Petra again after he leaves the Earth?

10. What does Bean do when he realizes he is going into space sooner than expected?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did Petra and Bean's relationship change over the course of this book, and what were the major causes of these changes?

Essay Topic 2

Why was Virlomi so jealous of the Ender's Jeesh, and how did this jealousy affect her actions?

Essay Topic 3

What is Graff's plan to bring peace to the Earth? Choose some of the members of the Ender's Jeesh and write about how this plan affected their actions in the plot.

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