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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. Where does Travize ask Fallom to take them?

2. Why does Bliss disable the guard robots?

3. Whose theory do the travelers use to try to plot Earth's location?

4. Where does Trevize think the secret of Earth is?

5. According to Monolee, what two factions warred, leaving Earth radioactive?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Trevize feel about Solaria?

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

6. How does Trevize feel about Fallom?

7. What does Trevize wish he could do when he finds the Earth is radioactive?

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

9. Describe the meals on New Earth.

10. Why was Bliss able to successfully overpower Bander?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The conflict between the individual and society is a central theme of Foundation and Earth. Discuss how the cultures of different planets in the novel deal with this conflict, including Gaia, Solaria, Comporellon, and New Earth.

1) Is it possible to find a healthy, peaceful balance between the rights of the individual and the rights of society?

2) What is lost in the social models of the book as the cultures attempt to resolve the conflict between individuals and society?

Essay Topic 2

Psychohistory is the idea that the course of human events can be plotted and predicted, at least on a macro-scale, as long as the society doesn't know (and therefore isn't affected by) the predictions. Discuss the role of psychohistory in the novel. How is Daneel utilizing a form of psychohistory? Is it dangerous for human beings to know and try to manipulate their own destinies? Is it possible for psychohistory to give human beings too much knowledge, or is more knowledge always better?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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