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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 Sister Carlotta decide to do concerning Bean as revealed in Chapter 6?
(a) Take DNA samples and run them through a data base.
(b) Research projects that could have produced Bean.
(c) Send Bean's description to various scientific communities.
(d) Nothing.

2. What is Dimak's reply to the warning he is given in Chapter 6?
(a) That Dimak is not intimidated.
(b) That Captain's Madrid's insolence is hiding insecurity.
(c) That nothing has ever intimidated the enemy before.
(d) That anyone would feel slow-witted around Bean.

3. What does Bean observe after leaving the conference between Graff and Dimak?
(a) Ender beating Bonzo in a video game.
(b) Ender re-writing some computer battle plans.
(c) A teacher entering a name and password in the computer system.
(d) An engineer breaking an essential part of the hyperdrive.

4. Why does the health of Poke's crew improve?
(a) Bean has found a sponsor and they get regular meals.
(b) The government begins a free immunization program.
(c) From eating at the kitchen.
(d) A doctor starts seeing them when they come to the kitchen.

5. What confuses Bean when he observes what Achilles does when Achilles meets with Poke?
(a) Seeing Poke salute Achilles.
(b) Seeing Achilles kiss Poke.
(c) Seeing Achilles slap Poke.
(d) Seeing Poke and Achilles split some money up into smaller bundles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is said about Achilles' leg?

2. Who realizes how the adults keep tab on the students?

3. What does Bean notice in the person's room found soon after entering the vent system?

4. What is the purpose of Achilles' manipulations among the children of the crew?

5. How tall is Bean predicted to become?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Poke live and how does she meet Bean?

2. What does Colonel Graff do when he reads Bean’s diary entry about Achilles?

3. Who does Bean tell about Achilles being a murderer, and what is Carlotta’s final decision concerning Bean and Achilles?

4. How does Achilles begin to insinuate himself into the group as the leader in Chapter 2?

5. What does Carlotta learn from Anton about Bean’s DNA?

6. What does Bean do when introduced to his desk, and why does it do that?

7. What does Bean do with the school records of other students in Chapter 11?

8. Who does Helga Braun contact regarding Poke’s gang and what does that person do when she comes to see the gang?

9. What does Carlotta discover about Bean, and what does she think of her discovery?

10. What does Carlotta consider when she meets Achilles, and what invitation does she extend to Poke’s gang?

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