Ender's Game - Chapter 8-10

Who is the leader of the Rat Army?

• Mazer Rackham

• Ender Wiggin

• Rose de Nose

• Dink Meeker

How is Rat Army significantly different from Salamander Army?

• Rat Army is less interested in winning and competitive

• Rat Army is more formal and rule-oriented

• Rat Army is friendlier and more sociable

• Rat Army is more disorganized and undisciplined

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What is Dink's opinion about the teachers?

• They are a problem because they are always spying on them.

• They are useful idiots because they provide the kids with everything they need at no cost.

• They are an unknown because they sometimes seem to help, but at other times seem to cause problems.

• They are the enemy because they get kids to fight each other.

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Why are fewer launchies coming to Ender's practices during free time?

• The commanders have restricted their time and forbidden them from coming.

• The commanders have threatened them with fewer promotions and vague punishments of not amounting to anything.

• Ender has become an unwelcome person among the launchies, with many of them seeing him as a traitor.

• The launchies discover that they have far more important things to learn from their commanders than they do from Ender.

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Why is there a skirmish/battle in zero G in the battleroom in this chapter?

• Rose de Nose and Bonzo Madrid conspired to have Ender beaten up.

• There was a scheduled exhibition battle between a selected group of launchies and older boys.

• Some older boys came to tease the launchies and decided to beat them up after the launchies taunted them.

• The adults wanted to see what would happen if Ender had a real fistfight in zero G.

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Why did the Wiggin family move from the city to rural North Carolina?

• The Wiggins family couldn't afford to live in expensive California any longer.

• The Wiggins family wanted to find a quiet place for Peter to heal his troubled mind.

• The Wiggins family needed to disappear from the federal government's surveillance.

• The Wiggins family wanted to hide Valentine and Peter from assassins.

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What is Peter’s plan to change the world?

• He wants to get himself and Valentine on the "nets" as adults in order to influence world opinion.

• He plans to run for president.

• He plans to track the movement of Russian train movements in order to stage an attack against enemy transportation.

• He intends to take control of the world energy supply with his sister so that everyone will be under his control.

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Why do Peter and Valentine need false identities on the nets?

• Only thirds are required to use their real names on the nets; everyone else uses false identities.

• The nets require everyone to use false names because people's real names are precious commodities.

• They are children and according to the laws children must use aliases to protect their identities.

• They are minors looking to stir up tension and don't want their activities traced back to them.

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Why does Valentine think the I.F. is at her school? What does Graff really want?

• She thinks he's there because of her nets activity, but he's there to ask her about Peter.

• She thinks he's there because she's a pyromaniac, but he's there to ask her about Ender.

• She thinks he's there because of her nets activity, but he's there to ask her about Ender.

• She thinks he's there because she's a pyromaniac, but he's there to ask her about her activity on the nets.

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How does Ender respond to the letter from Valentine? Why?

• Ender feels intense self-hatred for his forgetting of her and quits the Battle School.

• Ender feels compassion for his sister and decides to return to Earth to see her immediately.

• Ender realizes that the letter has been coerced, so it convinces him that the adults are the enemy.

• Ender writes a letter back to Valentine asking for her forgiveness and understanding.

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