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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. How does Hiroko dress?

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

3. Why does Trevize want to leave Bliss on the spaceship?

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

5. How do Solarians discourage visitors?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where does Bander get power?

3. 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?

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

5. Why was Bliss able to successfully overpower Bander?

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

7. How does Trevize feel about Solaria?

8. What does Pelorat promise Fallom if Fallom will lead the travelers out of Bander's estate?

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

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

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

Discuss power in the novel.

1) What gives Bliss power? Is she more powerful than Travize?

2) What kind of power does Travize have in the novel? How do other characters exert power over him?

3) What are Daneel's powers in the novel? Does Daneel have an excess of power?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the role of women and sexuality in the novel.

1) Compare the two sexual encounters Trevize has with the female representatives of societies he visits. Does Trevize use his sexuality to manipulate one or both of these women? Do the women use sexuality to manipulate him?

2) How are sexual mores different in the different cultures in the novel? How does this affect the role of women in those cultures?

3) Is Bliss a strong female character? How does her sexuality affect her role in the novel?

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