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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 Tervize's opinion about taking Fallom with them?

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

3. What does Trevize accidentally break off the statue?

4. What does Fallom try to do with the computer?

5. What allows the Solarians to live in isolation?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Trevize react when the ship's controls are taken over as they approach the moon?

3. What reason does Pelorat think Bliss has for taking Fallom with them?

4. Where does Bander get power?

5. Why is Bliss annoyed with Trevize for setting off the computer's alarm?

6. What aspects of the environment on New Earth affect the people's culture?

7. What makes the rays of the sun deadly on Melpomenia?

8. How does Trevize feel about Fallom?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the power of the individual versus the power of the group in the novel.

1) Is Daneel more powerful than Gaia because he is a truly single entity, not a group consciousness?

2) What advantages does Trevize's individuality give him over groups? What disadvantages does he have as a single individual?

3) What are the disadvantages of governments and ruling groups in the novel? What are their advantages?

Essay Topic 2

The societies depicted in Foundation and Earth adapt to their environments and also adapt their environments to their own needs.

1) Compare in what ways do the planets Trevize visits adapt to their environments, and in what ways they adapt the environments to their own needs.

2) Is it better in the novel to adapt to an environment or to try to change the environment? Are both necessary?

3) Is it dangerous to try to change one's environment? Can it be dangerous to try to adapt to an environment?

Essay Topic 3

The search for knowledge drives Trevize on his journey, and as he moves forward, the hidden nature of knowledge about Earth seems to make Trevize even more driven toward his goal.

1) What drives Trevize to search for Earth? Does the nature of Earth as forbidden make it a more attractive goal?

2) Compare man's advancement of science to Trevize's search for Earth. Will mankind continue to study science as long as he is faced with unknowns?

3) Is the search for the unknown and the forbidden dangerous, for Trevize and for mankind?

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