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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What more do we learn about the virus on Lusitania?
(a) That it is constantly evolving and shows different symptoms every time
(b) That it reproduces at rates previously unheard of
(c) That it is essential to the planet's ecosystem
(d) That it appears to have a sense of humor

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

3. Who gets spoken to by the gods?
(a) Jan Hi-jin
(b) Sing ho ma
(c) Yumi jao-lin
(d) Qing-jao

4. 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

5. What is the customary way to dispose of bodies?
(a) To eat them
(b) To bury them
(c) To send them out in space
(d) Burning on a pyre

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

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

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

9. What are they trying to research?
(a) A cure for cancer
(b) A new strain of potato
(c) Altering the Virus to make it harmless to humans but stlll able to sustain the piggies
(d) The length of time it takes for a pulsar to pulse

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

11. What four beings does Demosthenes' "Hierarchy of Foreigness" outline?
(a) Signisi, Teyropans, Rascidan, and Deyercosa
(b) Ufanta, Frisabigi, Rasgoes, and Gimanchi
(c) Fukasi, Ugarda, Rictors, and Vascidas
(d) Utlannings, Framlings, Ramen, and Varelse

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

13. 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) her last will and testament
(d) that if he were Hindu or Japanese he would commit suicide and join her in death

14. What is the person ailing from?
(a) Lymphoma
(b) A fatal cough
(c) Too many cheeseburgers
(d) A disease that eats at the bones

15. Why is life harder on the Godspoken than anyone else?
(a) The Godspoken aren't allowed to show emotion
(b) The Godspoken aren't allowed to drift from the Path for a moment
(c) The Godspoken aren't allowed to watch HBO
(d) The Godspoken are required to be the gods in training

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Qing-jao's father determine what kind of servant Wang-mu would make?

2. What makes Valentine uncomfortable about the whole experience at the Hive Queen's cave?

3. Valentine finds Miro in his room doing what?

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

5. What is on Jane's mind when she leaves?

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