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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 many official Warcross teams are there in the championships?

2. What team chooses Alexa Romanovsky in the Wardraft?

3. Who is the lead producer for the Warcross championships?

4. What is the highest bounty that Emika has ever earned, according to the narrator in Chapter 9?

5. In what borough of New York does Emika live?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Emika first meet Kenn Edon? What information does he relate to her?

2. What are Emika's first impressions of Hideo Tanaka when she meets him?

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

4. Who is Keira and how is she described?

5. What is the process of the Wardraft?

6. What happened to Emika's parents?

7. Why is Emika an unlikely candidate to be entered as a wild card in the championships?

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

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

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

Discuss the theme of teamwork in Warcross. Why is teamwork important in this novel? How does Emika feel about teamwork? How does her relationship to teamwork change in the course of the story?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the plot structure of Warcross. What is the inciting incident of the story? Where does the rising action transition into the climax? What is revealed in the falling action and denouement?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the backstory of Hideo in Warcross. What does Hideo reveal about his past to Emika? Why does his past torture him? How does Hideo's past influence his actions in the story?

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