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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. Who is Fallom's companion?

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

3. How does Bliss kill Bander?

4. Who does Fallom hope to revive?

5. How do Solarians seek freedom?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Trevize feel about Fallom?

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

9. How does Trevize feel about Solaria?

10. Describe the meals on New Earth.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss predestination and choice in the novel.

1) Are characters' choices predestined by their psychology and environment?

2) The characters are unaware that they are being manipulated by Daneel. Do they still have choice or is free will an illusion?

3) In the novel, is the course of society as a whole predestined by the nature of man and his environment? In what ways is the course of society predestined or uncertain?

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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