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

2. What is Bliss afraid of, if she reveals the truth about Bander's death?
(a) Pelorat's reaction
(b) Trevize's reaction
(c) being arrested
(d) Fallom's reaction

3. How do Solarians discourage visitors?
(a) They have a shield that hides the planet from detection.
(b) They have warning vessels on a perimeter around the planet.
(c) They have no cities or buildings above ground.
(d) They have a complex military defense system.

4. Whose theory do the travelers use to try to plot Earth's location?
(a) Compor's
(b) Lizalor's
(c) Bander's
(d) Yariff's

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Trevize know Bander is dead?

2. What leads Bliss to Fallom?

3. According to Bander, why have records of early settlers been destroyed?

4. What is Tervize's opinion about taking Fallom with them?

5. How many people inhabit Solaria?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reasons does Hiroko give for having sex with Trevize?

2. Why can't Fallom accompany the travelers onto the planet?

3. What does Trevize wish he could do when he finds the Earth is radioactive?

4. What aspects of the environment on New Earth affect the people's culture?

5. How does Trevize react when the ship's controls are taken over as they approach the moon?

6. What is Trevize's reasoning for continuing to search for information about Earth, now that he's found the planet and sees that it's radioactive?

7. Describe the meals on New Earth.

8. Why is Fallom uncomfortable on the island of New Earth?

9. How does Trevize feel about Fallom?

10. Describe how the travelers plan to find Earth using the locations of the fifty originally colonized worlds.

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