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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What shocks Qing-jao about Wang-mu?
(a) Her treason when she criticizes Congress for their attempted destruction of Lusitania
(b) Her brashness of questioning the gods
(c) Her insolence and potty mouth
(d) Her intolerance of the gods

2. What is the name of the virus that threatens the colonists of Lusitania?
(a) Triple Replication Amoebiotic Disease
(b) The virulent descolada virus
(c) Influenza muertada
(d) Ebolisium

3. What is the customary way to dispose of bodies?
(a) To send them out in space
(b) To bury them
(c) To eat them
(d) Burning on a pyre

4. Who approaches Qing-jao?
(a) Novinha
(b) Wang-Mu
(c) Ender
(d) Jane

5. What does Peter accomplish back on Earth?
(a) He gets elected Hegemon, absolute ruler of Earth
(b) He ends up in a psychiatric ward out in space
(c) He becomes psychotic with power
(d) He puts his finger in a light socket and dies

6. What is Wang-mu's ancient namesake?
(a) The Royal Mother of the West
(b) Royal Mother of the South
(c) Born Again Mother
(d) Royal Mother of the East

7. What does Qing-jao come to believe is responsible for the disappearance of the Lusitania fleet?
(a) Jane
(b) Her father
(c) The gods
(d) Ender

8. What do the pequinos think about the virus?
(a) They need it to move into their third life, trees, and be able to reproduce
(b) They are holding a town meeting to discuss the ramifications of the virus
(c) They don't care at all
(d) They hate it and want to destroy it

9. How would Miro feel without Jane?
(a) Happy and free
(b) Entirely lost
(c) Melancholy but angry
(d) Sad and depressed

10. Who gets spoken to by the gods?
(a) Jan Hi-jin
(b) Sing ho ma
(c) Yumi jao-lin
(d) Qing-jao

11. What does Ender fear about the other people?
(a) The result if they find out how aggressive the virus has become
(b) The other people will go after his family
(c) That they will have to move
(d) They will mutiny and kill him

12. Why is life harder on the Godspoken than anyone else?
(a) The Godspoken are required to be the gods in training
(b) The Godspoken aren't allowed to watch HBO
(c) The Godspoken aren't allowed to show emotion
(d) The Godspoken aren't allowed to drift from the Path for a moment

13. What are they trying to research?
(a) A new strain of potato
(b) Altering the Virus to make it harmless to humans but stlll able to sustain the piggies
(c) A cure for cancer
(d) The length of time it takes for a pulsar to pulse

14. What confuses the secret maid?
(a) That Qing-jao must cleanse despite having done no wrong herself
(b) When Qing-jao says her loyalty is to the Starways Congress, not to the Path
(c) That she is dismissed without cause
(d) When Quin-jao says she is blasphemous for being political

15. What are the Upper Caste expected to do?
(a) Eat frozen dinners and watch T.V. re-runs
(b) Be the voice of the people to the people of Earth
(c) Embrace the Path entirely and unreservedly
(d) Keep a tight thumb on the populace

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ender feel about the Hive Queen herself?

2. What must Congress have in order to rule the hundred worlds according to her father?

3. If the Upper Caste don't live up to expectations, what happens to them?

4. How does she become aware that the gods are speaking to her?

5. To what benefit is the negotiation with the Hive Queen?

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