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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 is the only product that the Emperor will eat?

2. What does Seldon use to predict the future?

3. Where do Hummin and Seldon drop off the taxi?

4. What does a severe voice address Seldon and Venabili as?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Hummin think he can help Seldon?

2. What does Leggen tell Venabili about Seldon and his disappearance?

3. Why does Clowzia say Leggen is annoyed?

4. What does Venabili plan to do with her life as a scholar?

5. Who is Hari Seldon?

6. How does Seldon say assassinations occur?

7. Why does Seldon find it hard to believe that the Galactic Empire is dying?

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

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

10. How does Seldon defend Venabili to Hummin?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare Seldon's character to the person he was when he first set sail to the person he is at the end of the book.

1) What did Seldon hope to achieve at the beginning of the novel?

2) What events changed Seldon's ideas about life?

3) How has Seldon's character changed by the end of the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the book's reception in three different countries including the country the book was written. How do their opinions about the books differ? Was the book more influential in one country than another? If so, why?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the author's life. In what way are his life and personality reflected in the book? Where could he have learned about the world of science? In what ways is he like or unlike the main character?

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