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

2. Why does Alai say Virlomi's armies will fail?

3. What is the name of Ender's book?

4. Who confronts Peter with the problems concerning Petra's essay about epidemics?

5. How old is Peter when he contacts his sister?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Petra realize after Peter leaves when she returns home?

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

4. How does Crazy Tom say an army would be able to beat Bean in war?

5. What does Chakepar offer to Virlomi, and how is this offer received?

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

7. What does Petra's mother say when she hears that Bean is going into space to save his life?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Randi and Virlomi are two characters who exhibited some extreme anger. How did they react to this anger, and how were their lives affected by this extreme anger?

Essay Topic 3

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

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