Speaker for the Dead Quizzes

Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Speaker for the Dead? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. When Ender quotes the Bible saying "'What man among you, if his son asks for bread, gives him a stone?'" he is saying


that Pipo should let Novinha take the test to be a xenobiologist.
that the Hive Queen should lay her eggs on Lusitania.
that Novinha should stop feeding her kids stone flakes for breakfast.
that Miro and Ouanda are right to teach the piggies forbidden knowledge.
Q. "Ramen" in Speaker for the Dead is


a stranger who you can't understand or speak to, like an animal.
someone from your village.
a stranger from another species who is still recognized as human.
an alien race which survives solely on noodles.
Q. Who says, "Then I will truly live forever."


Miro when he decides to go on a near-light spaceflight.
The Hive Queen when she gets to appear in a feature film.
Human when Ender agrees to write his story.
Pipo when he is planted to become a tree.
Q. Novinha tells Pipo she wants to speak for


her parents the saints.
the piggies.
Justin Bieber, who is still alive because of near-light-speed travel.
the community of Lusitania.
Q. When Ender says, "'Thou art fertile ground, and I will plant a garden in thee," he is talking to


Human, before he tortures him to turn him into a tree.
the Hive Queen, before he releases her on Lusitania.
Novinha before he spiritually reawakens her.
Jane, before he gives her a new computer terminal with sparkles on it.