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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the government offer Trevize?
(a) a chance to leave, without his friends
(b) a different ship
(c) immunity if he tells them what they want to know
(d) a chance to make bail

2. What is Pelorat's experience of Gaia like?
(a) vague pleasure
(b) sinister uneasiness
(c) euphoric joy
(d) extreme terror

3. Who does Trevize tell the official Bliss is?
(a) Pelorat's wife
(b) Pelorat's illicit companion
(c) Pelorat's servant
(d) the ship's engineer

4. What does Bliss call people who are not part of Gaia?
(a) Onlies
(b) Isolates
(c) Ones
(d) Individuals

5. Why does Pelorat say thorns and thistles may be needed?
(a) to ward off predators
(b) to balance an eco-system
(c) to create variety
(d) to protect flowers and fruits

Short Answer Questions

1. In the myth Pelorat relates, what causes thorns and thistles?

2. What type of planet is Trevize searching for?

3. What does the name Aurora mean?

4. What does Bliss imagine it would be like to not be part of Gaia?

5. How does Pelorat react to Trevize having sex with the minister?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who picks up the three travelers when they land on Comporellon?

2. What does Trevize want to prove during his sexual encounter with the government minister?

3. What does Trevize's willingness to lie, bribe, and bully show about his character?

4. How does Trevize feel when he first steps off his ship onto Aurora?

5. Why would a Gaian naturally value truth?

6. What does Pelorat say the rain means, when the spaceship is departing?

7. Does Lizalor show respect for the law?

8. What does Trevize hope to find in the ruins?

9. What possible reason does Trevize think the sensors might not detect life on the entry stations to Aurora, if there were someone guarding the planet?

10. Why would a Gaian naturally value law?

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