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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bliss reveal to Trevize?

2. Who suggested that Trevise head for Comporellon?

3. What does the name Aurora mean?

4. What does Trevize promise the minister?

5. What does Bliss call people who are not part of Gaia?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Trevize seem annoyed by the rain when the spaceship is departing?

2. Why does Deniador find it difficult to believe that a Spacer woman might travel with others on an ancient ship?

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

4. What caused Yariff's project to find Earth to fail?

5. Why does Bliss think marriage is unnecessary for Gaians?

6. What conditions does Bliss suggest might have caused the eco-system of Aurora to break down?

7. What does the choice of clothing of people on Comporellon show about human nature?

8. By allowing Trevize to land, what is the border official prioritizing above the law of society?

9. What are Earth and its system known as?

10. Why isn't the government interested in capturing Trevize?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the power of the individual versus the power of the group in the novel.

1) Is Daneel more powerful than Gaia because he is a truly single entity, not a group consciousness?

2) What advantages does Trevize's individuality give him over groups? What disadvantages does he have as a single individual?

3) What are the disadvantages of governments and ruling groups in the novel? What are their advantages?

Essay Topic 2

Compare Daneel to a deity. Daneel is a powerful, mind-controlling robot who has existed for 20,000 years, operating behind the scenes to try to protect and help mankind.

1) In what ways is Daneel god-like? In what ways is Daneel's garden beneath the surface of the moon like a heaven?

2) What limits or checks are there on Daneel's power? Is Daneel too powerful?

3) Has Daneel succeeded in completely manipulating Trevize? Why does Trevize feel a sense of joy when the ship is taken over for him as he approaches Daneel and the end of his journey?

Essay Topic 3

How do cultures in the novel try to protect themselves and promote their ways of life? Discuss the nature and values of the cultures of Comporellon, Solaria, New Earth, and Gaia. In what ways do each of these cultures compete with each other and try to protect themselves? Can cultures co-exist without undermining one another?

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