Ender's Game Test and Answer Key with Study Guide

With this summative test covering the entirety of the science fiction novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, English teachers will evaluate students’ reading comprehension, essay writing skills, and ability to analyze key aspects of plot. Included are the following: an answer key, standards-based rubric, and test prep study guide. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. By taking this assessment, students will:

• Demonstrate knowledge of primary and secondary characters and the key aspects of their lives
• Demonstrate knowledge of significant events that take place throughout the novel
• Evaluate substantive excerpts for deeper meaning
• Apply knowledge of literary devices including allusion, anaphora, dramatic irony, euphemism, foreshadowing, hubris, hyperbole, imagery, invective, metaphor, oxymoron, paradox, personification, simile, and verbal irony
• Respond to an essay prompt about the protagonist’s isolation, arguing whether he is better or worse off for having been isolated
• Cite relevant textual evidence in support of claims made in an academic essay