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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 say about Trevize's weapons?

2. How many animals surround Trevize?

3. Why are Trevize, Pelorat, and Bliss arrested?

4. What is Bliss able to detect about the animal life on the planet?

5. Who plans to travel with Trevize?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are the oldest records of Gaia stored in inanimate, inaccessible locations?

2. Why would a Gaian naturally value law?

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

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

5. At the beginning of the novel, what former decision does Trevize question?

6. What does Trevize hope to find in the ruins?

7. What game does Pelorat tell Trevize about?

8. How does Trevize feel about having to run from an animal?

9. What does Trevize's willingness to lie, bribe, and bully show about his character?

10. What does Trevize want to prove during his sexual encounter with the government minister?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare Gaia and Solaria. Both have gone to opposite extremes. In Gaia, all mankind and nature has joined together. In Solaria, each human separates himself from other humans and from the natural environment, living in a robot-built estate underground. However, in both Gaia and Solaria, peace is achieved through a lack of conflict. Compare the different values that the societies exhibit, and how they attempt to resolve the conflict between the individual and the society. After the attempt, do these cultures still contain "individuals"? Do they still contain "societies"? Is one possible without the other?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

The novel depicts humanity in many different forms, and in the end of the novel, Fallom merges with Daneel, becoming a partial robot and partial human. Discuss what it means to be human in the novel.

1) In what ways are the different humans from different cultures depicted in the novel the same? Are their similarities more significant than their differences?

2) Why do different human cultures view each other separately and not as part of the same humanity?

3) Is Fallom still human when he merges with Daneel? Is Daneel, in some ways, human?

4) Through adaptation and genetic engineering, is it possible for a human race to change so much that they are no longer "human"? What does it mean to be human?

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