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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can't Bliss have a child with Pelorat?

2. What does Hiroko confess to Trevize?

3. How many people inhabit Solaria?

4. What does Bliss detect from the travelers' new destination?

5. How does Trevize know Bander is dead?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Trevize feel about Solaria?

5. Where does Bander get power?

6. Describe Trevize and Pelorat's important discovery on Melpomenia.

7. Describe the meals on New Earth.

8. What reason does Pelorat think Bliss has for taking Fallom with them?

9. 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?

10. Why does Trevize think Bander explains about Solaria to the travelers?

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