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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the travelers think people of Solaria and New Earth are most concerned with?
(a) irradicating competing cultures
(b) keeping enough resources for themselves
(c) taking over other cultures
(d) protecting their ways of life

2. What does Trevize hope to find on the next planet, even if there is no life?
(a) skeletal remains
(b) machinery
(c) records
(d) robots

3. What covers Hiroko's doorway?
(a) a wooden door
(b) a clear plastic door
(c) a web of strings
(d) a curtain

4. What alternative theory does Trevize present to suppose that Earth might not be radioactive?
(a) He suggests that the story of radioactivity might be covering up a dangerous weapon hidden on Earth.
(b) He suggests that Earth may have spread the story of radioactivity to protect itself from attack.
(c) He suggests the story of radioactivity is to keep people from searching for Earth.
(d) He suggests that Earth's radioactivity would have worn off by now.

5. What happens as the ship approaches the moon?
(a) The ship's controls are taken over, and the ship is landed.
(b) The people on the ship start to feel ill.
(c) The ship begins to rock madly in turbulence.
(d) The people on the ship lose consciousness.

6. How do the people on the island react to the newcomers?
(a) The people ignore the newcomers.
(b) The people laugh at the newcomers.
(c) The people stare at the newcomers.
(d) The people seem angry toward the newcomers.

7. What does Pelorat compare Trevize's exploration of three planets to?
(a) three goddesses
(b) three monkeys
(c) three wishes
(d) three brothers

8. Who is Fallom's companion?
(a) a dog
(b) no one
(c) a robot
(d) a plant

9. What pronoun does Bliss suggest using for Fallom?
(a) it
(b) she
(c) they
(d) he

10. What is the surface of Alpha like?
(a) It is covered in sand.
(b) It is covered in ice.
(c) It is rocky and mountainous.
(d) It is covered in water.

11. What does Trevize call Beta?
(a) Alpha's sister planet
(b) Alpha's second star
(c) Alpha's nearest gas giant
(d) Alpha's moon

12. Who does Fallom relate Daneel Olivaw to?
(a) Bander
(b) Jemby
(c) Trevize
(d) Bliss

13. What is Tervize's opinion about taking Fallom with them?
(a) Trevize wants to get information from the child to complete his mission.
(b) Trevize thinks the child was in no real danger on its planet.
(c) Trevize wants to save the child's life.
(d) Trevize thinks the child belongs on its home planet.

14. What leads Bliss to Fallom?
(a) She can detect Fallom's thoughts.
(b) She can detect Fallom's fear.
(c) She can detect Fallom's joy.
(d) She can detect Fallom's anger.

15. What genetic modification do the people of Alpha hope to make to their species?
(a) They hope to make people resistant to all diseases.
(b) They hope to modify digestion, so people can eat seaweed and drink seawater.
(c) They hope to give people fins to swim in the water.
(d) They hope to give people gills, to breathe underwater.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bliss afraid of, if she reveals the truth about Bander's death?

2. What does Hiroko confess to Trevize?

3. How many people inhabit Solaria?

4. Why does Fallom want to touch the ship's computer?

5. Whose theory do the travelers use to try to plot Earth's location?

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