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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 Bliss think of the cold weather?
2. Does Trevize believe in psychohistory?
3. The weather is a part of ________________________.
4. What does Trevize say when Pelorat asks him to accept Bliss?
5. How does Pelorat react to Trevize having sex with the minister?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are some differences between animal life in the galaxy as Trevize knows it and animals on Earth today?
2. Trevize admits Gaia's peacefulness, but he still dislikes it. What does he value that he's afraid of losing to Gaia?
3. Why isn't the government interested in capturing Trevize?
4. Why might the showers on Comporellon be colder than showers Trevize is used to?
5. How does Trevize feel when he first steps off his ship onto Aurora?
6. Why does Deniador find it difficult to believe that a Spacer woman might travel with others on an ancient ship?
7. What possible reason does Trevize think the sensors might not detect life on the entry stations to Aurora, if there were someone guarding the planet?
8. What does Pelorat say the rain means, when the spaceship is departing?
9. Who picks up the three travelers when they land on Comporellon?
10. What does Lizalor do when she hears the word "Earth"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the genre of the novel.
1) What aspects of the novel make it science fiction? What science is important to the novel?
2) What aspects of the mystery genre does this novel have? What is the mystery at the heart of the novel?
3) In what ways does Trevize act as a detective? What is the "twist" at the end of the novel?
Essay Topic 2
The conflict between the individual and society is a central theme of Foundation and Earth. Discuss how the cultures of different planets in the novel deal with this conflict, including Gaia, Solaria, Comporellon, and New Earth.
1) Is it possible to find a healthy, peaceful balance between the rights of the individual and the rights of society?
2) What is lost in the social models of the book as the cultures attempt to resolve the conflict between individuals and society?
Essay Topic 3
By letting cultures develop unplanned, they are developing by chance. When mankind steps in, for instance through genetic engineering, the changes are purposeful.
1) Does purposeful change and adaptation have better results than planned change and adaptation in the novel?
2) Is it possible to predict the results of planned changes, or is there always an element of chance?
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