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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. Where do Valentine and Jakt move?

2. What more do we learn about the virus on Lusitania?

3. What is Valentine and Jakt's home planet?

4. What is Valentine Wiggins' pseudonym?

5. Who or what is Jane?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Miro find contact with people painful?

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

6. How is Jane considered to be a living being?

7. Why does Gloriously Bright implicate Demosthenes?

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

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

10. Why is philotic technology necessary?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Difficult decisions are never easy to make. Which challenge to you seemed most difficult for Ender to solve? Compare and contrast it to your most difficult problem. Can you compare them? If not, contrast them. Which task is actually more formidable?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the will to live and the right to life. How are they different? How are they similar? How can one aid the other? How is one not possible without the other?

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