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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 growth live on?
(a) oxygen
(b) silicon
(c) nitrogen
(d) carbon

2. Why does Pelorat suggest ending the mission?
(a) He believes Earth has been destroyed.
(b) He believes Earth is radioactive.
(c) He believes Earth doesn't exist.
(d) He believes Earth has no information to give them.

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

4. What does Trevize tell Bliss to do with the child?
(a) kill it
(b) get it off the ship at the nearest planet
(c) send it to her room
(d) put it in hybernation

5. For what reason does Bliss say she might harm Trevize?
(a) if he won't give up his impossible quest
(b) if he tries to hurt himself
(c) if he tries to hurt Fallom
(d) if he interferes with the ship's computer

Short Answer Questions

1. What leads Bliss to Fallom?

2. What does Fallom compare touching the computer to?

3. What begins growing on Pelorat?

4. What does Fallom try to do with the computer?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Pelorat promise Fallom if Fallom will lead the travelers out of Bander's estate?

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

3. Why was Bliss able to successfully overpower Bander?

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

5. How does Trevize feel about Fallom?

6. How does Trevize feel about Solaria?

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

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

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

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

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