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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 do Seldon and Venabili go to?

2. What does Rashelle offer rather than war and slavery?

3. What kind of transport do Seldon and Venabili take to the temple?

4. Who does Davan want Seldon and Venabili to lead?

5. What sector does Jirad Tisalver live in?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Seldon and Venabili prepare to go to the Sacratorium?

2. Why does Demerzel never let himself be seen on the palace grounds?

3. Why did Rachelle get angry with her officers at the zoo?

4. Why is Seldon disappointed in the Mycogenian's book?

5. Why is Billibotton even more dangerous than Dahl?

6. What does Seldon think is the key to psychohistory?

7. Why does Mycelium not like the temple?

8. Describe the room in the temple that Venabili and Seldon enter.

9. What does Venabili know about robots?

10. How does Sunmaster say they trapped Seldon and Venabili?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose two of the following people and outline how they helped Seldon to develop his psychohistory theory:

1) Venabili

2) Hummin

3) Cleon

4) Sunmaster

Essay Topic 2

Why does Mycogen have such a problem with outsiders? In what way is this problem a comment on contemporary 1980s society? What can Seldon and Venabili do to counter the difficulties the Mycogenians have with outsiders?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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