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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 team chooses DJ Ren in the Wardraft?

2. What color does Team Beta wear?

3. Why does Emika not receive the reward money in Chapter 1?

4. Who was the girl that was bullied at Emika's high school and whose nude photos were circulated around campus?

5. According to the New York Digest excerpt in the opening of the novel, how many viewers are expected to watch this year's official Warcross Championships?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Emika's primary objective in the opening of the novel?

2. What does Hideo Tanaka say to Emika when he first speaks to her on the phone?

3. What setting is the reader first introduced to in the novel? How is it described?

4. Who are the members of the Phoenix Riders and what roles do they play on the team?

5. What happened to Emika's parents?

6. How would you describe the fanfare that surrounds the Warcross championships?

7. What is the Dark World?

8. Who is Keira and how is she described?

9. Why did Emika hack into her high school's computer system?

10. Where does Emika live in the opening of the novel? How is this setting described?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who are the bounty hunters that Hideo Tanaka has hired? Why did he hire them? What is their mission? What reward does he offer the bounty hunters?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the twist-ending of Warcross. Did you expect this ending? What clues in the text foreshadowed the outcome of the story? Why do you think the author ended the novel in this way?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss three examples of foreshadowing or red herrings in the novel. What do "red herrings" refer to? Where in the text does Emika refer directly to red herrings? What purpose do these examples serve to the text?

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