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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 Baley want to examine?

2. Who is the man who meets Baley at Solaria?

3. What encases the people on Earth?

4. Why does Olivaw arrange for a tube from the space ship to their car?

5. What does Gruer say about the Solarian's knowledge of humans?

Short Essay Questions

1. What shocks Baley about his first communication with Gladia, and how does she explain the situation? What is Elijah's response?

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

3. Who is the Undersecretary and what does he order Baley to do and why?

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

5. What does Gladia tell Elijah about her relationship with her husband?

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

7. Describe Elijah Baley.

8. What does Gladia say about the murder of her husband?

9. What does Gladia ask Elijah about his and Daneel's proximity and what is Elijah's response?

10. Describe Gladia Delmarre.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are a number of examples in the book where it is obvious that human society is more strictly regulated and structured in the time of The Naked Sun than at the present time in the United States. Discuss the following:

1. Trace and analyze the way the worlds (Earth and Solaria) of The Naked Sun is structured and regulated. Evaluate its effectiveness and its problems.

2. Compare/contrast the life of the average Solarian to the average American today.

3. Are there countries that are as tightly controlled in the "real" world as that in The Naked Sun? Compare one of those countries with that of Solaria.

Essay Topic 2

Issac Asimov is one of the most prolific writers, both science fiction and other genres, including academic, of his time. It is useful to know about him not just because he authored The Naked Sun, but because his authorial life is quite astounding. Discuss the following:

1. Research Asimov and write a brief biography of the man.

2. What do you find to be most impressive about the man?

3. What do you think is Asimov's greatest accomplishment?

4. If you were told that you had to write 900 or so books and other works, how would you respond?

Essay Topic 3

When Elijah is on Solaria, he is disturbed by being out under the open sky. Discuss the following:

1. Why do you think Elijah finds fresh air and wind disturbing? How would you feel about it if you did not experience being out in the open very often?

2. Elijah eventually becomes overwhelmed and faints while sitting under the open sky. What in your life if it were radically different would "shake you up"? Compare the two.

3. How likely is it that in a few hundred years, Earth will be living in the manner suggested in Solaria in The Naked Sun?

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