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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. Who do the piggies want brought to them?

2. What does Ender turn off in this chapter?

3. What does Novinha agree to reveal?

4. Whose files are the only files for which the Starways Congress is not looking?

5. About what does Ender say that Miro and Ouanda make too many assumptions?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ender realize about Novinha's files in this chapter?

2. Describe the meeting between Dom Cristao and the Bishop.

3. Why does Ouanda not want Ender to come to the forest to meet the piggies?

4. Of what does the doctor say Marcao died?

5. In what way does Jane's disappearance affect Ender?

6. What does the mayor reveal in Chapter 15?

7. What does Ender suggest to the Lusitania leaders in Chapter 16?

8. Why does Ender not use Dom Cristao's rightful title?

9. In what way is Ender growing closer to Novinha and her family?

10. Why do the piggies want to learn about metal?

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

Identify the main themes of the story. Why do you think these themes are so important to the story? How does Card use character and setting to express these themes?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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