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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 the second difference Trevize notes between the planet and other planets?

2. Why does Bliss disable the guard robots?

3. How do the people on the island react to the newcomers?

4. How do Solarians discourage visitors?

5. What is the surface of Alpha like?

Short Essay Questions

1. What criticism does Trevize have of the Solarian society?

2. Why was Bliss able to successfully overpower Bander?

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

4. Describe how the travelers plan to find Earth using the locations of the fifty originally colonized worlds.

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

6. How does Trevize feel about Fallom?

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

8. How does Trevize feel about Solaria?

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

10. Where does Bander get power?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Compare Daneel to a deity. Daneel is a powerful, mind-controlling robot who has existed for 20,000 years, operating behind the scenes to try to protect and help mankind.

1) In what ways is Daneel god-like? In what ways is Daneel's garden beneath the surface of the moon like a heaven?

2) What limits or checks are there on Daneel's power? Is Daneel too powerful?

3) Has Daneel succeeded in completely manipulating Trevize? Why does Trevize feel a sense of joy when the ship is taken over for him as he approaches Daneel and the end of his journey?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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