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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 are the first colonists on Lusitania?

2. What has caused Ender to stay looking so young?

3. What has Novinha canceled?

4. What is Ender talking about with his students?

5. What does Ender make a list of the next morning?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does Chapter 3 deal with the theme of loss?

2. How has the situation changed when Ender arrives in Lusitania?

3. Why is Novinha afraid in Chapter 8?

4. Why does the student talk to Ender in Chapter 2?

5. Why is Novinha jealous of Ender?

6. How do the colonists treat the piggies?

7. Why does the hive queen want Ender to go to Lusitania?

8. How do Libo and Pipo change Novinha's life?

9. What does Ender learn about the colony in Chapter 6?

10. Why does Jane want Ender to go to Lusitania?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who are the Buggers? What is the significance of the Bugger race in this novel? In what have the humans learned from their problems with the Bugger race? Why do the students think the Bugger Wars had such an influence Orson Scott Card's world in this story?

Essay Topic 2

What loss has Novinha experienced and how has it affected her? Why has losing Pipo and Libo had such a profound affect on Novinha? How can she recover from such tragedy?

Essay Topic 3

Examine Novinha's children.

1) Why are Novinha's children so misbehaved? What do they lack in their life?

2) Why do the children react to positively to Ender?

3) Why does Grego see his father in a different light to the others?

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