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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Trevize accidentally break off the statue?
(a) its arm
(b) its sword
(c) its head
(d) its leg

2. What does the growth live on?
(a) nitrogen
(b) silicon
(c) oxygen
(d) carbon

3. What does Trevize say about Fallom's intelligence?
(a) He wants to speed up her lessons.
(b) She learns too quickly.
(c) He likes her for her quick-wittedness.
(d) She is slow because she is not used to being with people.

4. What do Trevize and Pelorat use to kill the growth?
(a) heat and ultraviolet light
(b) fire
(c) water
(d) microwave radiation

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

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

7. What allows the Solarians to live in isolation?
(a) telepathy
(b) a system of underground rivers
(c) robots
(d) the large size of their planet

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

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

10. What does Hiroko think of Bliss' clothing?
(a) She thinks Bliss is shamefully showing too much of her body.
(b) She thinks Bliss' clothing is ugly.
(c) She thinks Bliss' clothing is beautiful.
(d) She thinks Bliss is covering something ugly.

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

12. What does Fallom try to do with the computer?
(a) tell it to use all available data to create a theory of Earth's location
(b) tell it to take her home
(c) tell it to examine the radioactive planet for signs it might not be Earth
(d) tell it to return to Gaia

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

14. What begins growing on Pelorat?
(a) moss
(b) fungus
(c) mold
(d) ivy

15. How does Hiroko dress?
(a) in no clothing
(b) in light clothing and no top
(c) in a short dress
(d) in a body suit

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second difference Trevize notes between the planet and other planets?

2. How do the people on the island react to the newcomers?

3. What is the surface of Alpha like?

4. What happens as the ship approaches the moon?

5. Is the planet Trevize correct in suspecting that Earth is radioactive?

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