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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 Anakin think is the reason the Jedi are on Tatooine?

2. Who is watching Anakin from the stands?

3. Why does Obi-Wan not want Qui-Gon to help Jar Jar?

4. Who is Jar Jar Binks?

5. What does Nute Gunray tell Darth Sidious about the Jedi?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Jedi Knights originate and what do they do in the present of this novel?

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

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

4. Why do the Jedi take Jar Jar with them?

5. Who does Qui-Gon encounter when leaving the Federation transport area and what does the creature look like?

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

7. What happens in the bongo after the lights come back on and how does Qui-Gon handle the crisis?

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

9. Why do the Jedi lose power in their craft?

10. What is one of the tricks of being a successful slave and what are Anakin's secrets?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

While it is true that in the larger scheme of things, the troubles on Queen Amidala's planet affect a huge number of human beings, a reader always find it difficult invest emotional currency in story material that deals with huge numbers of "faceless" people. Journalists are known to use the phrase "putting a face on the issue," by which they mean that to involve a reader in a news story, a writer needs to key the story on an individual person.

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

2. Are you more likely to feel about a person you see in front of you who is hungry or to feel deeply when you hear about a whole group of people who are starving? Why or why not?

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

Essay Topic 3

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?

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