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

2. Why does the hive queen want Ender to go to Lusitania?

3. How is Marcao connected to Novinha?

4. What language does Ender learn on the flight?

5. Who does Ender's student tutor?

Short Essay Questions

1. How has the situation changed when Ender arrives in Lusitania?

2. How does Ender deal with Grego's violence?

3. How was present day Lusitania formed?

4. Why is Novinha jealous of Ender?

5. What happens to Rooted in the first chapter?

6. Describe Ender's flight to Lusitania?

7. How do the authorities deal with Pipo's death?

8. Describe the Mind of the Children.

9. Why does no one know that Andrew Wiggin is really Ender?

10. In what way do Novinha and Ender get on in Chapter 8?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Look at the novel's characterization. How well drawn do you think Card's characters are? Select one of the minor characters such as the Bishop and discuss how much you know about his background. In what ways does Card provide the reader with information about that character?

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

What loss has Novinha experienced and how has it affected her? Why has losing Pipo and Libo had such a profound affect on Novinha? How can she recover from such tragedy?

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