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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. How does Anderson think the team will respond to Bean or Ender as team leader?

2. What does Ender do with his Dragon army at the beginning of Chapter 13?

3. How does Ender use some of this soldiers in a practice battle in Chapter 18?

4. Who attempts to attack Ender?

5. How far in the future is the final battle with the Buggers?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who helps Bean during the argument among the Dragon members, and why does he help Bean?

2. What does Achilles think about doing to Bean in Chapter 17 and why?

3. How does Ender organize his army and how do the members feel about the way he does it?

4. What does Graff tell Carlotta about Achilles?

5. How does Ender defeat the Buggers?

6. What does Bean learn about Achilles at the Battle School, and how do Bean and Achilles get along?

7. What does Bean do with his toon at the beginning of Chapter 17 and what does Bean ask Graff?

8. What does Graff tell the team about the war after Ender’s last battle and what do they hear in the Command School?

9. Why are Ender and Bean taken out of the Dragon Army?

10. How does the schedule of practices change, and how does the Dragon army win a battle in less than a minute?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose two significant symbols and trace and analyze their appearance in Ender’s Shadow. Are these universal symbols that would have the same meaning in any culture? What other symbols could portray the same idea? Why do you think Card chooses the symbols he does?

Essay Topic 2

Bean sees Achilles kiss Poke and then later she is found dead. Bean knows that Achilles killed her.

Why do you think Achilles kills Poke, and what is some of the foreshadowing before it happens that may have led a reader to suspect it was going to happen? Use examples from Ender’s Shadow to support your response.

Essay Topic 3

Ender’s Shadow belongs to the science fiction genre.

Define the literary term "genre" and name three other genres in addition to the science fiction genre. What are the advantages and disadvantages of assigning a genre to a novel? What do you think is the difference between a science fiction and a historical novel or mystery?

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