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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 upsets Baley about the way he must question people on Solaria?

2. How long does it take the robots to find Gladia after she faints?

3. Where is Baley traveling at the opening of the story?

4. What does Baley ask Gladia concerning the murder?

5. What weapon is found in the house where the human is murdered?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the farming and mining areas set apart from other Earth space?

2. How do people on Solaria communicate and what are Baley's beliefs about how that will affect his investigation?

3. What does Daneel tell Elijah about Solaria, and what is Elijah's response?

4. What does Elijah want from the robot that witnesses Dr. Delmarr's death and where is the robot?

5. Explain the difference between "viewing" and "seeing" on Solaria.

6. Where is Elijah Baley at the opening of the novel and about what is he thinking?

7. What is Baley's response to his orders?

8. Describe Gladia Delmarre.

9. What is Elijah's attitude towards robots and what is the exception?

10. Discuss the laws of robotics.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Naked Sun is written in the genre of science fiction. Discuss the following:

1. What sets science fiction apart from other genres? Discuss several characteristics of science fiction that are absent in other genres and vice versa.

2. Some people might say that science fiction is merely for entertainment? Do you agree? Explain.

3. Discuss why The Naked Sun falls under the genre of science fiction.

4. Why do you think literary criticism breaks down fiction into genres? Do you think the labeling of genre to a work is useful to a reader? Why or why not.

Essay Topic 2

Klorissa also tells Elijah that the people of Solaria hate to be married. It is disgusting and unnatural and Dr. Delmarre had been working on a way to fertilize eggs so that the need for marriage would be done away with and no one would ever have to see each other again. Discuss the following:

1. What is the irony in Klorissa feeling that sexual relationships as a means of reproduction is unnatural?

2. Most cultures have their own ideas of what is natural and unnatural; children raised in a particular culture absorb those beliefs. How does that fact hinder change?

3. What do you think it would take for Solarians to become a culture based upon close human contact? Discuss fully.

Essay Topic 3

The concept of individualism is taken to the extreme in Solaria. Discuss the following:

1. Discuss and analyze three extreme examples of individualism in The Naked Sun.

2. What do you think are the psychological effects of the type of individualism on Solaria?

3. Discuss the positive aspects to life on Solaria as related to individualism.

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