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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 Clowzia offer Seldon?

2. What does Hummin ask Seldon if he suffers from?

3. What encircles Seldon as the jet takes off?

4. What does Leggen say Seldon is?

5. What kind of lessons does Seldon offer Venabili?

Short Essay Questions

1. What must one understand for psychohistory to be successful?

2. How does Seldon defend Venabili to Hummin?

3. Why does Venabili think the jet must have been a hallucination?

4. Why does Clowzia say Leggen is annoyed?

5. Describe the air taxi Seldon and Hummin use.

6. Why does Seldon think both Hummin and the Emperor are being unreasonable?

7. Why does Hummin tell Seldon not to show any distaste for Trantorian food?

8. How could Randa have accidentally let Seldon down?

9. How does Seldon say assassinations occur?

10. Why does Venabili think that the grays are for women and the whites are for men?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

PRELUDE TO FOUNDATION is part of the science fiction genre.

1. What are the conventions of the genre in terms of character, language and plot?

2. In what way did the Foundation series help to set the template for similar novels? Does modern science fiction still use the ideas the author uses in Prelude to Foundation?

Essay Topic 2

The Foundation series books greatly influenced science fiction. Choose a science fiction book that you think was influenced by the novel and discuss its similarities with the novel in terms of the following;

1. Plot

2. Character

3. Themes.

Essay Topic 3

Examine the novel's chronological setting.

1. What were the main concerns during the 1980s? How does the author express these concerns?

2. How would the author change the novel if it were set in today's society?

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