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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 make people resistant to all diseases.
(b) They hope to modify digestion, so people can eat seaweed and drink seawater.
(c) They hope to give people fins to swim in the water.
(d) They hope to give people gills, to breathe underwater.

2. What is Tervize's opinion about taking Fallom with them?
(a) Trevize wants to get information from the child to complete his mission.
(b) Trevize thinks the child was in no real danger on its planet.
(c) Trevize thinks the child belongs on its home planet.
(d) Trevize wants to save the child's life.

3. Where are most of the men of the island?
(a) living in caves
(b) on hunting expeditions
(c) on fishing expeditions
(d) on trading ships

4. What leads Bliss to Fallom?
(a) She can detect Fallom's thoughts.
(b) She can detect Fallom's anger.
(c) She can detect Fallom's joy.
(d) She can detect Fallom's fear.

5. What happens as the ship approaches the moon?
(a) The people on the ship lose consciousness.
(b) The people on the ship start to feel ill.
(c) The ship's controls are taken over, and the ship is landed.
(d) The ship begins to rock madly in turbulence.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people inhabit Solaria?

2. How was the island on Alpha formed?

3. What is the surface of Alpha like?

4. How does Bliss kill Bander?

5. How does Trevize know Bander is dead?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the meals on New Earth.

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

3. What criticism does Trevize have of the Solarian society?

4. Why was Bliss able to successfully overpower Bander?

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

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

7. Where does Bander get power?

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

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

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