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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 is Trevize's view of breaking the law?
2. What does Trevize warn Pelorat about experiencing Gaia?
3. What does Trevize say that upsets the minister?
4. What does the government offer Trevize?
5. How many animals surround Trevize?
Short Essay Questions
1. What possible reason does Trevize think the sensors might not detect life on the entry stations to Aurora, if there were someone guarding the planet?
2. What game does Pelorat tell Trevize about?
3. Why won't Bliss use her mental powers to help Trevize keep the Far Star?
4. What does Pelorat say the rain means, when the spaceship is departing?
5. What are Earth and its system known as?
6. What are some differences between animal life in the galaxy as Trevize knows it and animals on Earth today?
7. Why is the Far Star important to Comporellon?
8. When was Gaia first formed?
9. How long has it been since there has been war in the galaxy?
10. At the beginning of the novel, what former decision does Trevize question?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the three types of conflict in the novels.
1) How does the novel show the conflict between man and nature? How is adaptation and control of the environment part of that conflict?
2) How does the novel show the conflict between man and man? How is competition between different cultures part of that conflict?
3) How does the novel show the conflict between man and himself? Discuss the conflicts felt by major characters including Trevize, Fallom, and Daneel.
Essay Topic 2
By letting cultures develop unplanned, they are developing by chance. When mankind steps in, for instance through genetic engineering, the changes are purposeful.
1) Does purposeful change and adaptation have better results than planned change and adaptation in the novel?
2) Is it possible to predict the results of planned changes, or is there always an element of chance?
Essay Topic 3
Human beings have a tendency to look at those outside our own cultural groups as "others," often to be feared or distrusted. Discuss the "other" in the novel.
1) How does Fallom's lack of gender, as neither male nor female, make him an "other" to Trevize?
2) Trevize seems to view Bliss as an "other" at the beginning of the novel and then come to accept her over time. How does this transformation happen?
3) How does distrust of the "other" protect societies and cultures in the novel?
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