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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 does the growth live on?

2. What does Trevize accidentally break off the statue?

3. How was the island on Alpha formed?

4. How do Solarians discourage visitors?

5. What alternative theory does Trevize present to suppose that Earth might not be radioactive?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Bander get power?

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

3. What reasons does Hiroko give for having sex with Trevize?

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

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

6. How does Trevize feel about Solaria?

7. Describe the meals on New Earth.

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

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

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

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

Discuss information in the novel.

1) How is information used to manipulate people in the novel? Why is information about Earth hidden?

2) What are the benefits to Gaia of sharing information across multiple minds?

3) Is it possible to have too much information? Does information always give more power?

Essay Topic 3

The search for knowledge drives Trevize on his journey, and as he moves forward, the hidden nature of knowledge about Earth seems to make Trevize even more driven toward his goal.

1) What drives Trevize to search for Earth? Does the nature of Earth as forbidden make it a more attractive goal?

2) Compare man's advancement of science to Trevize's search for Earth. Will mankind continue to study science as long as he is faced with unknowns?

3) Is the search for the unknown and the forbidden dangerous, for Trevize and for mankind?

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