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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 is Jane?

2. What kind of scientist is Pipo?

3. What does an xenologer study?

4. How do the children's relationship with Ender change at the end of the chapter?

5. What does Novinha think has caused Pipo's death?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was present day Lusitania formed?

2. Describe Pipo's work as an xenologer.

3. What is Valentine life like after Ender leaves?

4. Why does the student talk to Ender in Chapter 2?

5. Why is it important that the author introduces the alien race in the prologue?

6. Who is Jane?

7. Why do humans dislike Ender?

8. What is the headmistress worried about in the first chapter?

9. Why did Ela call for a Speaker for the Dead?

10. What does Ender learn about the colony in Chapter 6?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why have the Catholics colonized Lusitania if they have no intention of spreading their religion? From what past mistakes have the Catholics learned? What benefits are there from observing the piggies rather than influencing them? Could just observing the piggies cause any problems in the long run?

Essay Topic 2

Who are the Buggers? What is the significance of the Bugger race in this novel? In what have the humans learned from their problems with the Bugger race? Why do the students think the Bugger Wars had such an influence Orson Scott Card's world in this story?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the fence that divides the two races.

1) What purpose does the fence serve? Who does the fence benefit?

2) What problems could the fence cause the planet in the future?

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