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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Jane ask Ender and Miro to not waste time on saving her?
(a) She is unhappy and would rather be decommissioned
(b) She doesn't care for her existence and doesn't want to take up their time
(c) She would rather them solve the other pending and pressing issues
(d) She wants to let Wang-mu and Han-Fei-tsu figure it out

2. Why does Quim feel confident?
(a) He is carrying an axe in his backpack
(b) He knows he will only be gone a day
(c) He doesn't believe he'll be hurt because he is protected by a treaty
(d) He has the descolada immunizing foods with him

3. What do most of Novinha's children and Ender do in response to the violence?
(a) They incite more violence against the piggies
(b) They return home to be with Novinha, having had enough 'diplomacy' for one day
(c) They arrest and detain Grego and his mob
(d) They select and set up another Mothertree for the little orphaned piggies

4. Gloriously Bright begs her father not to do what?
(a) Make the gods fall silent
(b) Send her to Lusitania
(c) Beat her
(d) Marry her to someone below her caste

5. What does Jane plead with Han to do?
(a) "Look in your heart and find compassion"
(b) "Look in your soul and find forgiveness"
(c) "Look at your feet" for the wisdom is there
(d) "Look in the matrix" for the fine piece of jade there

6. What is the emergency regarding?
(a) Jane is being discovered
(b) The piggies' intention to bring the descolada into space
(c) Ender's wife has become gravely ill
(d) War has broken out on Path

7. Why does Novinha refuse to speak to Ender after the meeting?
(a) He didn't give her enough attention the night before
(b) She is delirious with fever
(c) She doesn't want him to leave to Path
(d) She believes he could have stopped Quim and didn't

8. What do they ask for when they get there?
(a) That their mother can find the peace Quim had found
(b) That piggies, buggers and humans can work things out peacefully
(c) That Warmaker be burned as well as his forest
(d) That the xenobiologists find a way to kill all the piggies

9. To who does Ender compare Qing-Jao?
(a) Warmaker
(b) Quim
(c) The pequeninos that disdained Warmaker for his actions
(d) The pequeninos that let Quim die

10. What causes Novinha to throw out Miro?
(a) Miro talking to Jane about Quim's death
(b) Miro saying that she doesn't know her own son
(c) Miro making a smart remark at Quim's passing
(d) Miro calling her a bad mother

11. What happens to Quim?
(a) His breath is knocked out from the weight of the leaves
(b) He gets knocked unconscious
(c) He goes home and his mother is choked; he's all sticky
(d) He survives for seven days and dies from the virus

12. What may be Olhado's asset to working on the problem of faster-than-light travel?
(a) He is highly intelligent, and another mind that is not being utilized
(b) He has gained so much influence from Ender that Valentine thinks he may think like him
(c) The fact that he has been out of school for so long, and might glean a fresh perspective
(d) His lack of regular eyes allow him to see things closer to his heart and home

13. What does Quara call the new virus to help piggies reach their third stage but not hurt people?
(a) Recolada
(b) Encolada
(c) Enchilada
(d) Renucolada

14. Why is Novinha mad at Ender?
(a) She heard he helped set up the mothertree
(b) He was talking to Jane
(c) She blames him for Quim's death
(d) He wants to help the piggies

15. What is the most likely explanation for the descolada?
(a) It has partnered up with the buggers and is trying to annihilate all humans
(b) That it has a mind of its own
(c) That it was created by an advanced species to regulate and terraform the planet
(d) That it is not a virus but a quickly evolving species

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do they appoint as the God of Path?

2. How do the other piggies regard Warmaker's actions?

3. Where is the emergency meeting held?

4. What does Planter believe the virus did for them?

5. What is Quara's consequence for trying to aid the descolada?

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