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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the Upper Caste expected to do?
(a) Keep a tight thumb on the populace
(b) Embrace the Path entirely and unreservedly
(c) Be the voice of the people to the people of Earth
(d) Eat frozen dinners and watch T.V. re-runs

2. What was Miro before this near fatality?
(a) An insubordinate captain
(b) A twenty-year-old scholar
(c) A twenty-two-year old freshman
(d) A mutinous soldier

3. What is the promise Qing-jao has asked of her new secret-maid?
(a) To draw her a bath
(b) To remove her robes
(c) To treat her as equal when they are in private
(d) To pledge a blood oath

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

5. What satisfies Valentine most about writing?
(a) That she is an amazing poet
(b) That she is able to put Peter behind her and make him everything she wants
(c) That she is able to draw people in and make them see through her eyes
(d) That she can write for many hours without fatigue

6. What is the greatest honor for Qing-jao's father?
(a) That his daughter didn't die
(b) That she has her mothers determination
(c) That his daughter is so strongly possessed by the gods
(d) That his daughter attempted suicide when she felt too unclean for the gods

7. When Qing-jao questions her, what does she learn about Wang-mu?
(a) That she is damned to an eternity of prosecution for her disdain of the gods
(b) That she is blasphemous and detests the gods
(c) That the influence of Demosthenes is huge on common people
(d) That she is naive and childish

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

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

10. Valentine and Ender greet each other. They are concerned how their spouses will react to what?
(a) Their teasing
(b) Their distance
(c) Their familial bonds
(d) Their closeness

11. What is Valentine Wiggins' pseudonym?
(a) Sarah Sutton
(b) Demosthenes
(c) Daria Hitchens
(d) Nadia Federova

12. What does Jane know about Qing-jao?
(a) That she is destined to meet a handsome hunk
(b) That she will succeed and find Jane out
(c) That Ender will protect Jane if the need should arrive
(d) That she will never succeed and Jane is still safe

13. What does this girl want of Gloriously Bright?
(a) To touch her, as she is godspoken
(b) To kill her
(c) To be her servant and friend
(d) To be her teacher

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ender feel about the Hive Queen herself?

2. What does her husband fear most since she has died?

3. What must Congress have in order to rule the hundred worlds according to her father?

4. What is the only obstacle between Qing-jao and womanhood?

5. What is the name of the virus that threatens the colonists of Lusitania?

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