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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 Hiroko give Fallom?

2. What genetic modification do the people of Alpha hope to make to their species?

3. What is the first building Trevize and Pelorat find on the planet?

4. What do the travelers think people of Solaria and New Earth are most concerned with?

5. What begins growing on Pelorat?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Fallom uncomfortable on the island of New Earth?

2. Why was Bliss able to successfully overpower Bander?

3. Where does Bander get power?

4. How does Trevize feel about Solaria?

5. What is Trevize's reasoning for continuing to search for information about Earth, now that he's found the planet and sees that it's radioactive?

6. Why does Trevize think Bander explains about Solaria to the travelers?

7. What reasons does Hiroko give for having sex with Trevize?

8. Why can't Fallom accompany the travelers onto the planet?

9. Describe Trevize and Pelorat's important discovery on Melpomenia.

10. How does Trevize feel about Fallom?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Travize's character in the novel.

1) Why is Travize driven to find Earth, despite information that Earth is radioactive or even mythical?

2) Is Travize reasonable and logical, or is he emotional and illogical? Is he both? When and why?

3) How does Travize treat other people? Is he overly manipulative? Does he recognize other people's points of view?

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 information in the novel.

1) How is information used to manipulate people in the novel? Why is information about Earth hidden?

2) What are the benefits to Gaia of sharing information across multiple minds?

3) Is it possible to have too much information? Does information always give more power?

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