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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 does Novinha do immediately after Ender collapses in "Nobody is Rational"?
(a) She leaves him.
(b) She runs to get him water.
(c) She gives him CPR.
(d) She calls for help.

2. Who says "Life is a suicide mission"?
(a) Jane.
(b) Val.
(c) Ender.
(d) Novinha.

3. Why does Jane send Miro and Young Val to different planets?
(a) To see if they are habitable.
(b) To see if they have friendly people.
(c) To see if they are conquerable.
(d) To see if they have meat sources.

4. What observation does Malu make about Jane's attitude toward her mechanical body?
(a) She is pleased with her mechanical existence.
(b) She is fundamentally dissatisfied with it.
(c) She doesn't need it.
(d) She doesn't appreciate it enough.

5. When Miro goes to speak to Ender at the end of the chapter, "There are Too Many of Us," what does he ask Ender to do?
(a) Rejoin the real world and admit his mortality.
(b) Talk to Young Val.
(c) Kill himself so that Peter can live.
(d) Talk to Jane or rejoin the real world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Outspace?

2. Who says, "all stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe"?

3. How does Wang-mu respond after Grace points out Peter and her scam and calls them liars?

4. Who does Novinha say "spins a pretty story"?

5. What religious movement is thriving on Pacifica?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Hive Queen suggest about the mission that Jane is sending Miro and Young Val on and how does Miro confront Jane about this issue?

2. Describe Malu's entrance for his meeting with Wang-mu and Peter.

3. What does Peter tell Wang-mu to do while they are quarreling aboard the faster-than-light ship, and how does she respond?

4. What work have Miro and Young Valentine been engaged in since shortly after working out the logistics of faster than light travel and how quickly are they able to complete this work?

5. At the beginning of the novel, what does Jane do while Miro and Young Valentine scout for new habitable planets? What will happen after Jane is finished with her task?

6. Why do Peter and Wang-mu not have to learn a new language on Divine Wood and what language is spoken?

7. How does Ender's attention affect Val in "Life is a Suicide Mission" and how does she react to it?

8. What role does Wang-mu adopt when visiting Aimaina Hikari and why?

9. After losing many other men, for what does Novinha tell Ender she will hold him personally responsible and how can Ender avoid this responsibility?

10. How was Peter called into being and why does this cause problems?

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