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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What shames Miro when he looks upon his brother, Olhado?
(a) That he can barely see past his brother's mechanical eyes yet expects them to see past his disability
(b) 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
(c) That he made a smart remark about his choice in women, and yet he stands with a beautiful wife
(d) That his brother has six children and a wife, and Miro has yet to even find a woman to date

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

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

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

5. What must Congress have in order to rule the hundred worlds according to her father?
(a) Full support from all the colonies
(b) The mandate of heaven
(c) The blessing of the gods
(d) A debate every ten years

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can't they exterminate the virus?

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

3. What is the person ailing from?

4. What does Peter accomplish back on Earth?

5. Who writes as Locke?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jiang-qing believe is particularly responsible for Han's doubt of the gods?

2. What does her addition to the catalog of voices mean to the family?

3. Why is philotic technology necessary?

4. Both Wang-mu and Qing-jao envy each other. Why?

5. Jane realizes that Qing-jao is getting close. How does she believe she can get her to stop?

6. Why can't the Lusitanian colonists just wipe out the descolada virus?

7. How does Miro feel upon his return to Lusitania?

8. What does Qing-jao know about Lusitania?

9. What is causing a rift between Ender's stepchildren at the house?

10. Who approaches Qing-jao and what do they want with her?

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