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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 happens after the first practice of the Dragon army?

2. What is one other thing Graff tells Carlotta about Achilles in Chapter 14?

3. What does Sister Carlotta learn at the beginning of Chapter 14?

4. Why is the spin added to the procedure in launch-shoot-spin?

5. Where is Ender's army's gate?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bean finish off his trap for Achilles?

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

3. What does Bean plan to do with the safety cord he gets from supply?

4. What does Bean do with the Rabbit Army in Chapter 21, and why does he do it?

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

6. How does the final confrontation between Ender and Bonzo take place and what happens?

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

8. Who does the Dragon army fight in Chapter 15 and what is the result of that battle?

9. What does Carlotta learn about the biological relationship between Volescu and Bean?

10. What is an ansible and how is it used?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Characters are an integral and important part of almost all novels.

Compare/contrast the characters of Bean and Ender. How are they similar? How are they different? Is there a flaw in each of their personalities? Be specific and give examples. Compare/contrast the characters of Achilles and Nikolai. How do they seem different? Which do you like more? Why? Which one seems more of a well-rounded character?

Essay Topic 2

Although the battle is a victory for earth, the entire fleet is killed to achieve it.

Do you think Ender sacrificing the entire fleet was the right choice? Do you think if Bean had been the leader he would have been able to do the same as Ender? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Bean’s DNA has been manipulated to make him possibly the smartest person on earth.

Discuss the ways in which Bean’s life has been affected by the genetic work done on him.

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