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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the minister do after having sex with Trevize?
(a) She goes to sleep.
(b) She waits until he's asleep to search his clothes.
(c) She leaves him alone in the room.
(d) She goes to take a shower.

2. What does Bliss say that Trevize believes she is?
(a) a spy
(b) a robot
(c) an empty shell
(d) insincere and cold-hearted

3. What does the name Aurora mean?
(a) ending
(b) beginning
(c) escape
(d) paradise

4. Why does the minister have to be discreet about sex?
(a) Because she is a government official, she is liable to be the topic of scandal-mongering reporters.
(b) Sexual relationships on Comporellon are limited to two at a time, and she is involved in two relationships already.
(c) She is a married woman and infidelity is frowned upon.
(d) She is an unmarried woman and sex is controlled on the planet.

5. How does Trevize know the planet they finally arrive at is not Earth?
(a) It has no water.
(b) It has no moon.
(c) It has no land.
(d) It is not habitable.

6. Why are Trevize, Pelorat, and Bliss arrested?
(a) because they are suspected of smuggling illegal goods
(b) because Bliss has no papers
(c) because Trevize lied to an official
(d) because the Federation wants to seize the Far Star

7. What finally drives off the animals?
(a) Bliss gives them hallucinations.
(b) Pelorat lures them away off a cliff.
(c) Bliss uses mind control to make them afraid.
(d) Trevize injures one with severe pain.

8. Who plans to travel with Trevize?
(a) Dom
(b) Daneel
(c) no one
(d) Pelorat

9. What two weapons does Trevize take onto the planet?
(a) an atomic blade and a blaster
(b) a blaster and a neuron whip
(c) a laser bow and a neuron whip
(d) an atomic blade and a laser bow

10. Who does the minister send Trevize to?
(a) a philosopher
(b) a poet
(c) a physicist
(d) a historian

11. How can Bliss protect the travelers?
(a) with a defensive shield
(b) with her intuition
(c) with a weapon she's smuggled aboard
(d) with the power of Gaia

12. What problem is there with Bliss entering Comporellon?
(a) Comporellon and Gaia are in a state of war.
(b) Bliss has no official papers.
(c) Comporellon treats all Gaians as spies.
(d) Bliss is wanted for a crime on Comporellon.

13. Why does Bliss need more sleep than usual?
(a) because of the stress of traveling in space
(b) because she's secretly pregnant
(c) because she's ill
(d) because she's a long distance from Gaia

14. What do people on Comporellon call Earth?
(a) The Trap
(b) The Oldest
(c) The Origin
(d) The Center

15. How does Pelorat react to Trevize having sex with the minister?
(a) He congratulates Trevize.
(b) He believes the minister is using Trevize.
(c) He is worried it might cause problems.
(d) He tells Trevize that he needs a real relationship.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Pelorat believe in psychohistory?

2. What does Bliss take off when she is searched?

3. What is the official truly interested in?

4. Under what conditions does Bliss say she will interfere?

5. What does Trevise run to for protection?

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