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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. Who attacks Qui-Gon and Anakin on their way back to the Queen's ship?

2. What does Yoda feel about Anakin?

3. What do Anakin and Jar Jar hear when they sneak out of their quarters?

4. What does Anakin do when Yoda presses him about his mother?

5. Why can't Qui-Gon train Anakin himself?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why has Queen Amidala decided to return to Naboo?

2. What does the Jedi Council decide about Anakin?

3. What happened between Qui-Gon and Darth Maul by the Queen's cruiser?

4. What does Qui-Gon tell Obi-Wan when he brings the parts to the ship?

5. What happens when the Queen attends the Senate meeting?

6. How does Anakin feel at Qui-Gon's funeral?

7. What happened between Anakin and Padmy after the cruiser was in the air?

8. What happens when Padmy, the Jedi and her troops enter the hanger?

9. What happens when Padmy meets the Viceroy in the Theed throne room?

10. What do Anakin and Jar Jar hear when they sneak out of their quarters?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

The key to Anakin Skywalker's character is his sense of himself as different, with abilities that not even he understands, and with large dreams that he sees as certainties rather than possibilities.

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

2. Do you think someone with Anakin's feelings about himself would have a difficult time relating to other children his age? Why or why not?

3. What do you think you would do if you had Anakin's abilities? Use examples from your life to illustrate your answer.

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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