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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the rings around a planet remind Pelorat of?
(a) a legend about how to find Earth's location
(b) an antique science book that may have originated on Earth
(c) a legend about lucky rings on Earth
(d) a line in an old poem about Earth's solar system

2. What does Trevize use instead of a map?
(a) He uses a mathematical simulation of the Milky Way.
(b) He decides to head toward the destination without information.
(c) He uses the ship's computer.
(d) He uses the ship's telescope.

3. What does the government offer Trevize?
(a) a different ship
(b) a chance to leave, without his friends
(c) immunity if he tells them what they want to know
(d) a chance to make bail

4. What does Bliss say is her purpose aboard the Far Star?
(a) She says she is a paid companion.
(b) She says she is the ship's engineer.
(c) She says she is a passenger.
(d) She says she is the ship's cook.

5. The weather is a part of ________________________.
(a) Trevize's plans for his journey
(b) the consciousness of Gaia
(c) a plot to keep Trevize from leaving
(d) Pelorat and Bliss's plan to get brought along

6. What type of planet is Trevize searching for?
(a) one that shows up on sensors as radioactive
(b) one that's habitable and not on the computer's maps
(c) one that's small enough to go unnoticed
(d) one that's uninhabitable now but was once habitable

7. What does Trevize say empty planets like this have been used for?
(a) survival training
(b) prisons
(c) weapons testing
(d) naval maneuvers

8. Why might Comporellon hold clues to Earth?
(a) It is mentioned in a legend about Earth.
(b) It is an older civilization than Gaia, home of some humans' ancestors.
(c) It is on a direct trajectory from Gaia to where Trevise believes Earth to be.
(d) It is further from the center of the universe than Gaia.

9. What animal approaches Trevize?
(a) a dog
(b) a bear
(c) a mountain lion
(d) a goat

10. What happens to Trevize, Bliss, and Pelorat when they land?
(a) They are taken into official custody.
(b) They are kidnapped by a criminal gang.
(c) They are welcomed with a banquet.
(d) They are put in holding in customs.

11. When the ship approaches the next planet, does Bliss sense human life?
(a) Yes, but she's unsure whether it's only because she wants to find humans
(b) No, she senses no human life whatsoever
(c) Yes, she senses a large human settlement
(d) No, but she believes she might be blocking any detection of humans

12. How does Trevize first try to convince the official to let him land?
(a) by offering him Bliss
(b) by using his power as a government official
(c) by threatening to shoot him
(d) by threatening to tie him up and escape past him

13. Why does the minister have to be discreet about sex?
(a) She is an unmarried woman and sex is controlled on the planet.
(b) Sexual relationships on Comporellon are limited to two at a time, and she is involved in two relationships already.
(c) Because she is a government official, she is liable to be the topic of scandal-mongering reporters.
(d) She is a married woman and infidelity is frowned upon.

14. Who does the minister send Trevize to?
(a) a physicist
(b) a philosopher
(c) a historian
(d) a poet

15. What does Trevise run to for protection?
(a) a tree
(b) a river
(c) a building
(d) the ship

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Trevize hope to find in Gaia's records?

2. Why doesn't Bliss want to marry?

3. Does Bliss sense robots on the planet?

4. Does Pelorat believe in psychohistory?

5. What is Pelorat's experience of Gaia like?

(see the answer keys)

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