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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 is surrounding Naboo?

2. What do Kitster and Wald want Anakin to do with him?

3. How does Anakin Skywalker feel in his race vehicle?

4. What do Jedi Knights do?

5. Why has Qui-Gon come to Naboo?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Anakin and Padmy look at and talk about when they get to his house?

2. What does Anakin's mother ask him to promise?

3. What happens to Jar Jar when walking through the market?

4. What does Nute Gunray do when the Jedi Knights come aboard his ship and what is he ordered to do?

5. What does Qui-Gon think about the blockade around Naboo?

6. Why is Watto angry with Anakin and what happens?

7. What kind of welcome do the three receive in the Gungan city and what does the head man offer?

8. Who does Anakin meet in the canyon and what does he do?

9. What conversation do Qui-Gon and Shmi have about Anakin?

10. What type of dream does Anakin have the night before the race? How does he leave the dream?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

It seems as if Anakin has already embraced Qui-Gon's philosophy of following one's intuition at the time one's senses are alert to an opportunity.

1. What do you think is meant by this statement? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Do you think one should follow intuition even if it seems contrary to logic? Why or why not?

3. Write about a time when you followed intuition or didn't follow it and how the situation turned out.

Essay Topic 2

Coincidence in life is one thing, but coincidence in literature and storytelling is another. The general rule that most writers learn is that it's safe to use coincidence in a story when the result is to get the hero into trouble, or into more trouble than he or she is already in. If the writer succumbs to the temptation to use coincidence to get the hero out of trouble, or to serve the necessities of the plot, the reader's enjoyment diminishes because the natural skeptic in the reader says, "this isn't plausible."

1. What do you think is meant by this statement? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Do you think this statement is true? Why or why not?

3. Why do you think something that happens in real life might not be believable in a novel? Support your answer with examples from both real life and fiction.

4. How do you think the cliche "the truth is stranger than fiction" corresponds to this statement?

Essay Topic 3

The action of the race is pure thrills - escalating to an exciting finish, using all the "bells and whistles" of the science-fiction form, but actually following in the pulp fiction tradition of macho competitive struggle employed by man and machine.

1. What do you think is meant by pulp fiction tradition of macho competitive struggle?

2. What do you think is the "bells and whistles" of science fiction??

3. Describe a scene in Chapter 13 that would indicate to a read the book was science fiction, even if the description was all a reader saw.

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