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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 is the promise Qing-jao has asked of her new secret-maid?

2. What four beings does Demosthenes' "Hierarchy of Foreigness" outline?

3. Who gets spoken to by the gods?

4. To what can the Godspoken experience be compared?

5. What are the Upper Caste expected to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is to be noted about Valentine and her relationship to her husband, Jakt?

2. What does Qing-jao know about Lusitania?

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

4. What is different for Miro when he returns to Lusitania?

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

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

7. What concerns Ender about the hive Queen?

8. How does Wang-mu feel about the penances exacted by the gods?

9. What are Congress' two main reasons for decreeing the destruction of the planet, Lusitania?

10. What is the significance of the Path to the Godspoken?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Novinha reacts rather roughly to Quim's death with her entire family, hardest on Ender. Do you think her actions were justified? Why or why not? As her actions were largely based on emotion, figure out a few things she could have done more logically and create an argument as though you were trying to convince her to use logic in the face of emotion.

Essay Topic 3

Grego and Human are both acting unreasonably and cannot be reasoned with. Imagine you are a negotiator and have to put up logical reasons why this war should not continue against two illogical and irrational beings. Write a convincing argument as to how this war could have been averted or should have been averted.

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