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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the virus that threatens the colonists of Lusitania?
(a) The virulent descolada virus
(b) Triple Replication Amoebiotic Disease
(c) Ebolisium
(d) Influenza muertada

2. What does Peter accomplish back on Earth?
(a) He ends up in a psychiatric ward out in space
(b) He puts his finger in a light socket and dies
(c) He gets elected Hegemon, absolute ruler of Earth
(d) He becomes psychotic with power

3. One of the things Han Fei-tsu and his wife talk about before she dies is ___________________________________
(a) their duty to their daughter and how he will break the news to her
(b) their plans for their daughters education
(c) that if he were Hindu or Japanese he would commit suicide and join her in death
(d) her last will and testament

4. What does her husband fear most since she has died?
(a) That he cannot fulfill his promise to teach his daughter to love the gods
(b) That he will not have a female role model for his daughter
(c) How to operate the VCR as she was the only one with the codes
(d) That he will never again remarry, so his bed will always be empty

5. What shames Miro when he looks upon his brother, Olhado?
(a) That Miro hadn't even bothered to check up with him since he left and wasn't there for the birth of any of his kids
(b) That he can barely see past his brother's mechanical eyes yet expects them to see past his disability
(c) That his brother has six children and a wife, and Miro has yet to even find a woman to date
(d) That he made a smart remark about his choice in women, and yet he stands with a beautiful wife

6. The penances enacted by Han Fei-tsu at his wife's deathbed were most likely_________.
(a) The result of intentional inbreeding
(b) An act of service to the gods
(c) The actions of a man stricken with grief
(d) Symptoms of his own obsessive compulsive disorder

7. What does Miro reassure Jane with when she is troubled?
(a) That she's beautiful even without a corset
(b) That he will always be her friend
(c) That she is beautiful and intelligent
(d) That most people don't have original thoughts

8. What shocks Qing-jao about Wang-mu?
(a) Her treason when she criticizes Congress for their attempted destruction of Lusitania
(b) Her intolerance of the gods
(c) Her insolence and potty mouth
(d) Her brashness of questioning the gods

9. Qing-jao is asked how much she knows about something. What is it?
(a) Lusitania
(b) Who Demosthenes is
(c) Ender and his teachings
(d) The whereabouts of Miro

10. Why does Gloriously Bright feel the need to purify herself once again when she returns home?
(a) She told Wang-mu that the gods don't exist and that she feels silly when doing her penances
(b) She came close to defying them when she suggested Starways Congress had lost their mandate
(c) She told her father that she didn't believe in the gods
(d) She refused to do penances for her last defiance

11. Why does Qing-jao want to die during testing?
(a) She is told that her mother never loved her
(b) She believes the gods have deemed her too unclean to live
(c) She is told she can never again see her father
(d) She has a vision that she will die alone and without family

12. How does Miro feel about his return home?
(a) He loves it and missed them greatly, he wishes he could stay
(b) Its so comforting to him to be back with his family
(c) He feels their warmth and acceptance of him and wants to remain there
(d) It's hard on him and he wants to go back to space

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

14. What does Miro's brother Quim do for a living?
(a) He is a servant
(b) He is a welder
(c) He is an ordained priest
(d) He is a soldier

15. If the Upper Caste don't live up to expectations, what happens to them?
(a) They are relieved of their status
(b) They are tortured
(c) They are burned alive
(d) They are punished with penances

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Wang-Mu feel about the penances exacted on Qing-jao?

2. How would Miro feel without Jane?

3. Who approaches Qing-jao?

4. How many years have gone by for Miro's family?

5. Why does Miro fight with his brother, Quim?

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