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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Trevize hope to find in Gaia's records?
(a) a reason for Bliss's behavior
(b) plans for a space ship
(c) a history of Gaia's origins
(d) references to Earth

4. What does Trevize do while the others search the ruins?
(a) He goes to search the jungle.
(b) He stays on the ship.
(c) He stands guard.
(d) He takes scientific readings.

5. What does Pelorat ask Bliss as they approach the planet?
(a) Pelorat asks Bliss to marry him.
(b) Pelorat asks Bliss to make their relationship public.
(c) Pelorat asks Bliss to hide their relationship.
(d) Pelorat asks Bliss to have his child.

6. What does the official do?
(a) He makes Trevize give him a written statement before allowing him through.
(b) He makes Trevize turn back to the nearest planet.
(c) He makes Trevize wait for official clearance.
(d) He allows the ship passage.

7. What is Pelorat concerned about when Trevize reveals the story he told the entry point official?
(a) He is concerned that the lie will be discovered by officials.
(b) He is concerned that Trevize lies too much.
(c) He is concerned that Bliss will think he's married.
(d) He is concerned that the official didn't truly believe Trevize.

8. How did Yariff think he could find Earth?
(a) by a complex geometry of the stars
(b) by studying the ages of all the planets
(c) by communion with nature
(d) by documenting the genetics of settlers on different planets

9. What is Trevize concerned might be the result of being part of Gaia?
(a) living too much in the past
(b) limitation of life and growth because of thinking the same
(c) having too much information to handle
(d) lack of privacy and inability to keep secrets

10. What happens to Trevize, Bliss, and Pelorat when they land?
(a) They are put in holding in customs.
(b) They are taken into official custody.
(c) They are welcomed with a banquet.
(d) They are kidnapped by a criminal gang.

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

12. What does Deniador say early settlers were dependent on?
(a) a mechanized shelter
(b) a tyrannical leader
(c) their ability to adapt to cold
(d) robots

13. Why does Trevize wonder if he should worry about his safety?
(a) He's trying to find out if his support of Gaia was wrong.
(b) He is trying to find out who is really behind Gaia.
(c) He is on his way to vote against Gaia.
(d) He wants to vote for Gaia against popular opinion.

14. When the ship approaches the next planet, does Bliss sense human life?
(a) No, she senses no human life whatsoever
(b) Yes, but she's unsure whether it's only because she wants to find humans
(c) No, but she believes she might be blocking any detection of humans
(d) Yes, she senses a large human settlement

15. Who does Pelorat believe settled the planet?
(a) a group of sentient robots
(b) a religious organization looking to create a Garden of Eden
(c) malcontents from early Earth settlements
(d) the first wave of settlers from Earth

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the official think will happen when Trevize lands?

2. Why are Trevize, Pelorat, and Bliss arrested?

3. What does Trevize tell the minister?

4. What happened to the first settlers, according to Deniador?

5. What does Bliss call people who are not part of Gaia?

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