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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does she become aware that the gods are speaking to her?
(a) That her hands are never clean enough
(b) That she is sleep walking
(c) That they announce her as chosen
(d) That her ears are constantly ringing

2. How far back do these genetic modifications date?
(a) Eight hundred years
(b) Seventy five years
(c) Thirty two hundred years
(d) Three thousand years

3. What do the two people left in her family do when she dies?
(a) They cry for days
(b) They neither eat nor speak
(c) They make paper offerings to her
(d) They draw blood from their legs

4. How much time has passed on Earth since Valentine and Jakt left?
(a) Three hundred, fifty two years
(b) Twenty two hundred years
(c) Three thousand years
(d) Sixty years

5. What are two problems the human colonists on Lusitania are facing?
(a) Extreme planetary stench and irritable bowel syndrome
(b) Planet destruction and viral infection
(c) Large interstellar cockroach infestation and continental shifts
(d) Earthquakes and criminal activity

6. How does she satisfy the gods when she cannot wash her hands?
(a) She begs for forgiveness and prostrates herself before their mercy
(b) She follows a wood grain line to the wall
(c) She undresses and the gods are attracted to her
(d) She has a personal conversation and vows abstinence

7. Why does Miro fight with his brother, Quim?
(a) Because he insulted their sister, Ouanda
(b) Miro mocked his belief in a god he could not see or touch
(c) He disdained going to church
(d) Because he insulted the Lord

8. What does Qing-jao explain to this new girl?
(a) That her place is and will always be below her
(b) That she would gladly give up her status for less responsibility
(c) The laws of gravity
(d) That true love is seldom found and that she should marry

9. Who does Miro not want to see upon his return home?
(a) Ouanda, his sister
(b) Erga, his aunt
(c) Demitri, his Uncle
(d) Ender, his stepfather

10. Why is Descolada an issue?
(a) They are vicious
(b) They are mean little creatures
(c) They are voracious
(d) They kill off crops

11. What is Qing-jao unable to believe at first?
(a) That she is unintelligent and unworthy of the gods' notice
(b) That the Starway Congress would send a Mass Destruction device to Lusitania
(c) That Ender lives in California
(d) That her father didn't love her mother, and killed her close to the end

12. What does laying an egg do to the Hive Queen?
(a) It puts her in a foul mood due to all the pain she is in
(b) It puts her in sustained sexual climax therefore makes her cheerful
(c) It doesn't affect her whatsoever
(d) She regards it with little more discomfort than a mosquito bite

13. What confuses the secret maid?
(a) That she is dismissed without cause
(b) When Qing-jao says her loyalty is to the Starways Congress, not to the Path
(c) When Quin-jao says she is blasphemous for being political
(d) That Qing-jao must cleanse despite having done no wrong herself

14. Who writes as Locke?
(a) Miro
(b) Ender
(c) Peter
(d) Jakt

15. Who or what is Jane?
(a) Jane is an avatar of the ships mainframe, personified to keep him company
(b) A being that evolved from communication technology of humans and buggers
(c) Jane is Miro's wife
(d) Jane is Miro's daughter

Short Answer Questions

1. How does she think Wang-mu came to her?

2. How did Jane come into being?

3. Who is Plikt to Valentine and Jakt?

4. What does Jane ask Valentine?

5. The penances enacted by Han Fei-tsu at his wife's deathbed were most likely_________.

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