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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. How can Bliss protect the travelers?

2. Does Bliss sense robots on the planet?

3. What happens to the memories of someone who dies on Gaia?

4. How does Trevize first try to convince the official to let him land?

5. What does the minister say the condition of Earth is now?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the Far Star important to Comporellon?

2. How long has it been since there has been war in the galaxy?

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

4. What are Earth and its system known as?

5. Why does Trevize question the reason for a large crowd watching the spaceship take off?

6. What kinds of plants and animals did the early space travelers introduce onto Aurora?

7. Who picks up the three travelers when they land on Comporellon?

8. Who do the people on Comporellon believe caused the downfall of Earth?

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

10. What are some differences between animal life in the galaxy as Trevize knows it and animals on Earth today?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the nature of Gaia.

1) Are the members of Gaia truly individuals? To what extent? Do they lose their individuality as part of Gaia?

2) Does the joined consciousness of Gaia mean better decisions? Could Gaia make wrong choices leading to bad results?

3) Would it be a good idea for all humankind to join together as part of Gaia?

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

Discuss the genre of the novel.

1) What aspects of the novel make it science fiction? What science is important to the novel?

2) What aspects of the mystery genre does this novel have? What is the mystery at the heart of the novel?

3) In what ways does Trevize act as a detective? What is the "twist" at the end of the novel?

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