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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 Sister Carlotta learn about Bean's DNA?

2. What does Bean let interfere with his strategy in responding to the officer?

3. What does Sister Carlotta decide to do concerning Bean as revealed in Chapter 6?

4. When is it predicted Bean will die?

5. Why does Bean have to move through the ventilation system naked?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Carlotta discover where Bean lived before being a member of Poke, and where did Bean live?

2. With whom does Carlotta talk about the experiment done on Bean and how does she get the information out of the man?

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

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

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

6. How does Achilles help the younger children of Poke's crew get more to eat?

7. What is Bean’s first encounter with a Battle School officer?

8. How does Bean discover that Achilles is a murderer?

9. How does Carlotta begin to investigate Bean’s origins and what does she think it might be?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define plot and include the definitions of the most important elements of a plot. Do all novels have a plot? Why or why not? Write a brief synopsis of the plot of Ender’s Shadow, identifying where the various elements of the plot occur (Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution or denouement). Do you find it difficult to identify the plot? Why or why not? What about the various elements of the plot? Give a brief synopsis of any important sub-plots.

Essay Topic 2

Battle School, though for training children soldiers, is still a school with fairly young students.

What are some of the social, power and educational structures in Battle School which correspond to the schools in present day America?

Essay Topic 3

Often, authors will write about what they know, and sometimes knowing a little about the author makes the books more interesting.

Research and give a brief biographical sketch of Orson Scott Card. Do you think there is always some of the author's own life in his/her novels? Why or why not? Give examples. Name one idea/concept you think may have been a part of the Card's agenda. Analyze that idea throughout the book and discuss Card's probable agenda concerning that idea.

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