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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 does Fallom hope to revive?

2. What does Trevize call Beta?

3. Why does Trevize tell Bliss that she is responsible for the child?

4. What begins growing on Pelorat?

5. What does Trevize say about Fallom's intelligence?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Fallom uncomfortable on the island of New Earth?

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

5. 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?

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

7. How does Trevize feel about Fallom?

8. Describe the meals on New Earth.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare Gaia and Solaria. Both have gone to opposite extremes. In Gaia, all mankind and nature has joined together. In Solaria, each human separates himself from other humans and from the natural environment, living in a robot-built estate underground. However, in both Gaia and Solaria, peace is achieved through a lack of conflict. Compare the different values that the societies exhibit, and how they attempt to resolve the conflict between the individual and the society. After the attempt, do these cultures still contain "individuals"? Do they still contain "societies"? Is one possible without the other?

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

Discuss the genre of the novel.

1) What aspects of the novel make it science fiction? What science is important to the novel?

2) What aspects of the mystery genre does this novel have? What is the mystery at the heart of the novel?

3) In what ways does Trevize act as a detective? What is the "twist" at the end of the novel?

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