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

2. Who meets Bean in Manila?

3. What do people who want to see Virlomi at her new house have to take off before getting an audience with her?

4. Who helps Virlomi leave her country?

5. What does Crazy Tom say an army would need to be able to do to beat Bean at war?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Alai tell Virlomi to wait to start a war, and how does she respond to this advice?

3. Why was Peter denied entrance to Battle School?

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

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

6. How does Virlomi feel about Ender's Jeesh, and why?

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

8. What does Bean tell Graff after he is already on the starship?

9. How does Bean say he will be able to handle three children alone on the starship?

10. What do Peter's parents say when they visit him, and how does Peter react?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Why did Peter have such a strong reaction to the compliments from his mother, and how did this encouragement change his actions?

Essay Topic 3

Courage and Fear are two very important themes that overlap in this book many times. What are some examples of this, and how do these examples affect the progression of the plot?

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