1. man of peace
   exceptional
2. end of days
   It doesn't mean anything

In a surprising twist of fate, Card was informed that the name "Ender" - which, to his knowledge, didn't exist - actually means "rare" or "exceptional" in Turkish. It's a suitable name for the novel's hero, who truly was one in a million.

1. Petra
   Hot Soup
2. Bean
   Mazer

Bean, always one to help Ender out of a pinch, jokes that "the enemy's gate is down," in reference to Ender's brilliant battle room strategies. This phrase jolts Ender into action, inspiring him to destroy the Formic home world.

1. He never witnessed their devastating battle tactics.
   He learned to love them in his quest to understand them.
2. Ender never has feelings.
   Ender sees them as pawns in a chess game of power.

Ender believes that he cannot defeat his enemies without first loving them. In loving them, he understands their way of thinking and their motivations enough to destroy them completely if he chooses.

1. A house on a lake
   Back home to his family
2. On a tour of Europe
   To an isolated space station

Col. Graff gives him the vacation he desperately needs, and even allows Valentine to visit him in the hopes that Ender will regain the will to fight. The ploy works, and after a few halcyon months on Earth, Ender leaves his home planet for good.

1. Xenocide
   Ender in Exile
2. Speaker for the Dead
   Children of the Mind

"Ender in Exile" tells the story of Ender's journey from Earth to the new colony he expected to call home. It was written last, so it can be read any time after "Ender's Game."

1. The idea that he'll always be in Ender's shadow.
   Pure hatred of his brother.
2. A desire to keep Valentine all to himself.
   No reason, it's just a whim.

Peter's parents cleverly use praise of Ender to wound Peter's pride, thus driving him to change his mind about trying to bring Ender back to Earth. Peter desires a world in which no one, not even Ender, stands taller than he, metaphorically speaking.

1. Shakespeare
   Planet Bob
2. Caprica
   Ender's World

Ender is at first unsure of his ability to govern the colony, but spends his time on the ship gaining the trust of its future colonists. Once on the planet's surface, he faces the difficult task of integrating the new arrivals with the original settlers.

1. Valentine, Ender's sister
   Petra Arkanian, a command school colleague
2. Theresa Wiggin, his mother
   Alessandra, a colonist

Valentine uses her influence both as Ender's sister and as the demagogue Demosthenes to communicate with Graff and secure a future in space.

1. Ender Wiggin
   Mazer Rackham
2. Hot Soup
   Hyrum Graff

During one of his many post-war conversations with Ender, Mazer described Graff as the "consummate bureaucrat" because of the many plans he prepared and the way he could use anyone to accomplish them. They were never terribly worried about Graff during the post-war trial, knowing that he'd find a suitable solution on his own.

1. peaceful
   respectful
2. uneventful
   tempestuous

Alessandra and Dorabella butt heads frequently throughout the duration of "Ender in Exile." For all their fights, the two do still show love and affection to each other.

1. Ignoring him, then performing directly to him in a play.
   Wandering the halls, following him wherever he goes.
2. Tempting him with liquor and slinky clothes.
   Offering to be his personal secretary.

Dorabella made a point of introducing herself to all the officers except for him, then turned around and focused entirely on him during her performance in "Taming of the Shrew." The ploy worked, and Morgan was love-struck.

1. A letter signed by the Polemarch
   An automatic subroutine programmed into his ship
2. Ender's familiarity with the colony's soldiers
   All of the above

Admiral Morgan was upstaged by a clever plot involving a letter notifying him of the consequences of any insubordinate actions, and by Ender's sincere dedication to getting to know the colonists of Shakespeare before his arrival.

1. Ender's name is associated with xenocide.
   People hate the Formic race even more.
2. It undermines the Hegemon's authority on Earth.
   None of the above

When Ender anonymously writes "Speaker for the Dead," it causes many people to question the necessity of wiping them out. Over time, this is used to political advantage by other characters to impugn Ender's good name.

1. He just wanted to visit new planets.
   He learned of a gravely dangerous situation.
2. He was summoned there as a "speaker for the dead."
   He saw the future and knew he was needed.

Ender travels under the name of Andrew Wiggin to the colony of Lusitania, ostensibly because someone requested a speaker for the dead, a person who would learn about the life of the deceased and make an oration to their family and friends.

1. the indigenous species of Lusitania
   a terrible, quickly evolving virus
2. a play performed yearly on Lusitania
   Lusitania's version of Halloween

The Descolada was a virus that infected the entire surface of Lusitania before humans arrived. Early settlers of the planet had to develop drugs to keep it from harming human hosts, and the local scientists struggle to keep up with its evolution.

1. the sentient species indigenous to Lusitania
   a traveling band of comedians
2. a series of rivers filled with jagged rocks near the settlement
   the summer days in Lusitania

Lusitania was the first colonized world in which the settlers discovered an intelligent race already inhabiting the planet! The Pequeninos are so named because of their resemblance to pigs.

1. Mark their territory for the humans to see.
   Keep them from sharing secret information.
2. Honor them with entrance into the Pequenino third life.
   Sacrifice them to their gods.

The Pequeninos have a ritual to allow their males to enter into the "Third Life," a state of existence as a sentient tree. They attempt to honor Libo and Pipo with this ritual, not understanding that they are committing murder.

1. Libo
   Ender Wiggin
2. Arkanian Delphiki
   Human

Once the humans are made aware of the Hive Queen's presence, it's necessary to establish boundaries for the settlements. It takes Ender's great power of persuasion and his understanding of human minds to prevent all-out war.

1. Ender's lover
   A being who exists in the ansible connections
2. The child of the Hive Queen
   The first human-pequenino hybrid

Jane somehow came into being when the Hive Queen tried desperately to reach Ender during the last Formic war. She started out as the computer program used for the Mind Game Ender played in Battle School.

1. a set of nuclear bombs
   Doomsday Missile
2. Doctor Device
   Planetary Annihilation System

The Molecular Disruption Device, or "Doctor Device," is launched against Lusitania out of fear of the Descolada. Fortunately, Jane and her crew manage to catch and disable the device, saving the planet.

1. He meets all his deceased relatives.
   He conjures up Valentine and Peter Wiggin.
2. He creates a cure for the Descolada.
   He dies.

Part of Ender's "aiua," or being, is split off from him and he creates young versions of Valentine and Peter. The real Valentine is none too happy about this development, and eventually Ender's aiua must decide on a permanent body.

1. Andrew Wiggin
   (new) Valentine Wiggin
2. Peter Wiggin
   Jane

Out of the three - Andrew, Valentine, and Peter - only Peter survives in "Children of the Mind." Finally able to feel whole, he moves forward with his new vision for Starways Congress.

1. It vanishes into dust, just like Ender's body.
   It slowly dies and is buried.
2. It is taken over by Jane.
   It fuses with Miro, who is then able to speak normally again.

Jane, desperately in need of a body after her ansible connections are terminated, takes over the second Valentine's body as Ender's auia leaves it. She's then given the physical form she needs to live happily ever after with Miro.

1. Ouanda
   Jane
2. Si Wang-mu
   Petra III

The native of Path loathes Peter at the beginning of their journey together, but by the end of the story, she is happy to marry a softer, wiser Peter.

1. bashing her head against a wall
   back lashings
2. several days of meditative prayer
   tracing the grains of her wooden floor

Qing-jao was one of the "Godspoken" residents of Path. While they thought their compulsions were atonement required by the Gods, they were actually the victims of a genetics experiment conducted by Starways Congress.

1. She pulls the fleet into the Outside, where it is lost forever.
   She prevents all ansible communications to and from the fleet.
2. She re-routes unmanned drones to intercept and destroy the fleet.
   She unleases a deadly plague on the crew.

While the actual fleet itself continued to progress toward Lusitania, its disconnection from the ansibles prevented the reception of new orders from Starways Congress and created quite the stir.

1. a frog
   urine
2. a paper airplane
   a dandilion

Grego, an uncouth and ill tempered little boy, attacks Ender as soon as he enters the house, and later tries to escape from Ender's grasp by peeing on him.

1. Valentine (his sister)
   Jane (his favorite companion)
2. Novinha (Marcos' widow)
   Alessandra (his lover on the first colony ship)

Ender is curious about Novinha from the moment she sends out a request for a speaker of the dead as a little girl. When he arrives on her planet, she has grown into a hurt, hardened woman.

1. legs
   ears
2. fingers
   eyes

He says that Olhado is the nickname given to him because of his artificial eyes. He can record everything he sees to replay or delete as he sees fit.

1. Ela
   Quim
2. Grego
   Quara

Quim always took his faith seriously and believed his calling in life was to be a missionary to the Pequeninos. Some of them gratefully accept his faith, but others are less welcoming.

1. Marcos was married twice.
   Marcos murdered Libo, not the Pequeninos.
2. Marcos was a spy for Starways Congress.
   All of his children were secretly sired by Libo Figueira.

As it turns out, Marcos had a congenital disease that prevented him from fathering children, and all of the Ribeira children were actually the sons and daughters of Libo Figueira. He married Novinha on the condition that she could still be with Libo secretly.

1. It can never be cured.
   It was engineered to terraform planets and probably gather intel for an alien species.
2. It was created by human scientists employed by Starways Congress.
   The Pequeninos discovered a cure and withheld it from the humans.

The Descolada, a terrible virus afflicting the whole planet, is discovered to be the creation of an alien species. Their communication methods are vastly different from human speech, and the books leave much about the virus and the race that created it unexplained.

1. Valentine Wiggin
   Jane
2. Ela Ribeira
   Quara Ribeira

Jane is Ender's constant confidant and companion through the earpiece he takes with him everywhere. Jane's omnipresence in Ender's life is a sore spot for Novinha and leads to trouble in their marriage.

1. a spaceship
   tunnel systems
2. a laboratory
   a telescope

They want to escape their planet and explore the stars, so the Hive Queen shares her knowledge with them. Unfortunately, they must overcome the problem of the Descolada, which could wipe out all the inhabited planets if it is carelessly spread to human vessels.

1. She takes over Valentine II's body.
   She visits the Mothertree and Fathertree network of Pequeninos.
2. Malu saves some of her essential programs in a secret laboratory.
   All of the above

Surviving the ansible disconnection is a harrowing experience for Jane, and it forces her to explore her connections with the rest of the world. Through the help of her friends, she is guided to safe havens.