Q 01/05

In Ender's Game, what does Ender Wiggin learn about his simulator tests only after the final examination?

A) They were rigged to fail

B) They were real battles

C) They were old recordings

D) They were never scored

Answer · why

B) They were real battles

They were real battles: each test relayed his orders to human ships already closing on the bugger worlds. The adults cheering behind him had let a chi...

Q 02/05

In Ender's Game, which insulting label marks Ender Wiggin as a child his parents needed government permission to have?

A) A Third

B) A Spare

C) A Surplus

D) A Latecomer

Answer · why

A) A Third

A Third is a child born beyond the two-child limit, and other children treat the word as a mark of shame. Ender was requested only because his brother...

Q 03/05

In Ender's Game, which direction does Ender Wiggin teach his soldiers to assign to the enemy's gate in zero gravity?

A) Above

B) Ahead

C) Behind

D) Down

Answer · why

D) Down

Down is the direction Ender picks, so an attack becomes a feet-first fall toward the target. Other soldiers still clung to the corridor's sense of up ...

Q 04/05

In Ender's Game, which half-Māori hero of the Second Invasion reappears decades later as Ender Wiggin's final teacher?

A) Imbu

B) Anderson

C) Rackham

D) Pace

Answer · why

C) Rackham

Mazer Rackham was kept alive by a voyage at near light speed, so fifty years on Earth cost him only eight. He introduces himself to Ender with a surpr...

Q 05/05

In Ender's Game, which schoolyard bully does six-year-old Ender Wiggin beat so badly that the boy later dies?

A) Stilson

B) Pinual

C) Momoe

D) Slattery

Answer · why

A) Stilson

Stilson and his gang corner Ender on the day the fleet stops watching over him. Ender keeps kicking after the boy has fallen so that nobody will try a...