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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Trevize know Bander is dead?
(a) The power is gone from the estate.
(b) He is freed from the force that had stopped him from getting his weapons.
(c) He sees Bander's body.
(d) The estate begins to slowly crumble.

2. Where does Trevize think the secret of Earth is?
(a) a nearby gas giant
(b) a nearby red planet
(c) the sun
(d) the moon

3. According to Bander, why have records of early settlers been destroyed?
(a) The Solarians are revulsed by the early history.
(b) The records were destroyed to hide a secret.
(c) The Solarians believe that keeping records of the past would cause their doom.
(d) The records were destoryed on accident.

4. How many people inhabit Solaria?
(a) 1,200
(b) 12,000
(c) 120,000
(d) 120

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

6. What does Bliss detect from the travelers' new destination?
(a) human thought
(b) thought that seems neither human nor robot
(c) thought that seems part human and part robot
(d) robot thought

7. Why does Fallom want to touch the ship's computer?
(a) because Fallom has intuited how to operate it
(b) because Fallom wants lessons
(c) because Fallom wants to sabotage it
(d) because it's not allowed

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

9. Why does Trevize tell Bliss that she is responsible for the child?
(a) because she brought it on board
(b) because the child has bonded with her
(c) because she is a woman
(d) because she killed the child's parent

10. Why can't Bliss have a child with Pelorat?
(a) Bliss cannot have children.
(b) Pelorat cannot have children.
(c) Bliss can only have a child with a Gaian.
(d) Bliss will not have a child with someone she loves.

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

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

13. What does Hiroko confess to Trevize?
(a) She has infected him with a virus as a biological weapon.
(b) She has hidden her knowledge of the location of Earth from him.
(c) She has fallen in love with Trevize and wants to leave with him.
(d) She knows the men will sneak in to kill the travelers during the night.

14. For what reason does Bliss say she might harm Trevize?
(a) if he interferes with the ship's computer
(b) if he won't give up his impossible quest
(c) if he tries to hurt Fallom
(d) if he tries to hurt himself

15. Why does Pelorat suggest ending the mission?
(a) He believes Earth has been destroyed.
(b) He believes Earth doesn't exist.
(c) He believes Earth is radioactive.
(d) He believes Earth has no information to give them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fallom say Bliss asked Trevize to do?

2. What does Trevize accidentally break off the statue?

3. What does Fallom compare touching the computer to?

4. What does Trevize tell Bliss to do with the child?

5. Who comes up with a theory on the location of Earth, based on the locations of the fifty Spacer worlds?

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