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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 Bliss's reaction to Trevize arming himself to disembark on the second unknown planet?

2. What does the official do?

3. The weather is a part of ________________________.

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

5. What is Trevize's view of breaking the law?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Pelorat want to stay on Aurora?

2. Does Lizalor show respect for the law?

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

4. What does Lizalor do when she hears the word "Earth"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Throughout the novel, various means of manipulation are used by the characters to get what they want.

1) Discuss Trevize's use of lies, bullying, and bribery to get what he wants. Are his actions justifiable? Why does Trevize use these means?

2) Discuss the use of sex as a tool of manipulation. Are characters justified in playing on each other's emotional responses?

3) Discuss Daneel's manipulation of the human race. Is it justified, according to the Laws of Robotics?

4) Discuss Bliss's ability to manipulate minds. Why does she set limits on when and how she will use her abilities?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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