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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 long is Ender's flight?

2. Which of Novinha's children attacks Ender?

3. Who does Maraco beat in the episode?

4. What is the name of Pipo's son?

5. To who does Novinha dread returning?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does Jane want Ender to go to Lusitania?

6. Why do humans dislike Ender?

7. Why is the prologue important?

8. Why is Novinha jealous of Ender?

9. How do the colonists treat the piggies?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Speaker for the Dead is written in the third person. Why do you think Card chose to write the story in the third person? How do you think the meaning of the story would have changed if it were written in the first person?

Essay Topic 2

Speaker for the Dead is a famous book which has greatly influenced the science fiction genre. Choose a science fiction book written after Speaker for the Dead that you think was influenced by the novel and discuss their similarities in terms of:

a) plot

b) character

c) themes

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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