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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Qing-jao's father tell her in response to her conclusion about the fleet?

2. Why does her father believe she will succeed where everyone else has failed?

3. Ender thinks about drastic measures to preserve the piggies. What are they?

4. Who confirms Quara's data to be correct?

5. If the Upper Caste don't live up to expectations, what happens to them?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is significant about Miro and Jane's conversation?

2. What concerns Ender about the hive Queen?

3. What or who does Qing-jao believe is responsible for the disappearance of the Lusitania fleet?

4. What does Qing-jao realize about the common people as a result of Wang-mu?

5. Why is philotic technology necessary?

6. Why does Qing-jao want so desperately to wash the grease from her hands?

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

8. What complicates this debate between Grego and Ela?

9. What shames Miro?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There is a chapter that outlines the differences quite clearly of people who are married to their job and who are married to their spouses. Which do you think would be more fulfilling? Define why you believe your choice holds the key to a happy life.

Essay Topic 2

Valentine Wiggin goes by a pseudonym, Demosthenes. Suggest reasons why she could not write under her own name. Do you perceive these reasons as being valid to warrant deception spanning hundreds of worlds? Why or why not? Speculate on why authors may sometimes write under pseudonyms.

Essay Topic 3

Why is it a threat to Qing-jao that her father tell everyone it was her who found the fleet? Why do you think this is of social significance? How do you think that the Congress would react to such outbursts on Path? Justify your answer using quotes from the book.

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