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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. How many people inhabit Solaria?

2. What pronoun does Bliss suggest using for Fallom?

3. Why is Fallom unhappy?

4. What does Bliss detect from the travelers' new destination?

5. Why is Bander referred to as "it"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reasons does Hiroko give for having sex with Trevize?

2. What criticism does Trevize have of the Solarian society?

3. What aspects of the environment on New Earth affect the people's culture?

4. How does Trevize feel about Solaria?

5. Why is Fallom uncomfortable on the island of New Earth?

6. Describe Trevize and Pelorat's important discovery on Melpomenia.

7. Describe how the travelers plan to find Earth using the locations of the fifty originally colonized worlds.

8. How does Trevize feel about Fallom?

9. What makes the rays of the sun deadly on Melpomenia?

10. Why can't Fallom accompany the travelers onto the planet?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The novel depicts humanity in many different forms, and in the end of the novel, Fallom merges with Daneel, becoming a partial robot and partial human. Discuss what it means to be human in the novel.

1) In what ways are the different humans from different cultures depicted in the novel the same? Are their similarities more significant than their differences?

2) Why do different human cultures view each other separately and not as part of the same humanity?

3) Is Fallom still human when he merges with Daneel? Is Daneel, in some ways, human?

4) Through adaptation and genetic engineering, is it possible for a human race to change so much that they are no longer "human"? What does it mean to be human?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss power in the novel.

1) What gives Bliss power? Is she more powerful than Travize?

2) What kind of power does Travize have in the novel? How do other characters exert power over him?

3) What are Daneel's powers in the novel? Does Daneel have an excess of power?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the three types of conflict in the novels.

1) How does the novel show the conflict between man and nature? How is adaptation and control of the environment part of that conflict?

2) How does the novel show the conflict between man and man? How is competition between different cultures part of that conflict?

3) How does the novel show the conflict between man and himself? Discuss the conflicts felt by major characters including Trevize, Fallom, and Daneel.

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