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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. Where are the Jedi going to get to the capital city?

2. What is Anakin Skywalker's home planet so hot?

3. Why have Jar Jar and Qui-Gon left for the race track before Anakin?

4. What does Anakin think is the reason the Jedi are on Tatooine?

5. Who greets the Jedi when they open the conference room door?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Anakin do when Qui-gon goes outside with Watto?

3. Where do the Jedi go upon leaving the underwater city and what are they using for a vehicle?

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

5. Who does Anakin meet on the Dune Sea and what does he do there?

6. Why is Anakin an unusual Podracer and how does he make up for it?

7. Where does the Queen's personal cruiser go and how does it avoid being hit by enemy fire?

8. What does Jar Jar offer to do and how do they have to get there?

9. Where is Nute Gunray and the Queen of Naboo when Theed falls to the Federation troops?

10. What would happen if Anakin's Podracer had contact with any solid surface?

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

Despite the fact that multiple viewpoints prevail in the world of the novel, it is not surprising, if by this point in the book the reader is feeling increasingly put-upon as a result of being forced to jump from one hero to another.

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

2. When you read a book do like to stay with one character and or viewpoint for the entire book or do you like it when the author skips between different characters or sub-plot lines? Why or why not?

3. Do you think the story thus far could be told by sticking with only one main "hero?" Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Anakin has a unique relationship with Padmy. She is a mother figure, which is seen clearly when she holds him in her arms to soothe his deep sorrow at being parted from his mother. She is also a sister figure, and a potential romantic figure, as evidenced by the feelings he has for her that would rightly be described as "puppy love," but which, with his limited experience of life, he cannot identify.

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

2. Describe a person in your life who seems to fill more than one "role."

3. Do you think a person can fulfill more than one "role" in a person's life, such as brother, friend, father, mentor, etc. Why or why not?

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