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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. The Fall of the Galactic Empire is what?

2. What is the name of the envoy from Anacreon?

3. What is the solution to the first crisis on Terminus?

4. What does Hardin believe is the key to the survival of Terminus?

5. What is the name of the Chief Commissioner?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the solution to the dilemma faced by Terminus at the fifty year point?

2. What unsettling experience does Gaal have as he travels up to the observation tower in Trantor?

3. How does Hari Seldon calculate that a disaster will befall the Empire in 300 years?

4. What sort of things does the commission question Gaal about when he is first put into detention?

5. What does Hardin's analysis of the conversations he secretly taped with Lord Dorwin show?

6. Why is Terminus of interest to the planet Anacrea?

7. What does the image of Hari Seldon tell the board was the true purpose of the Encyclopedia?

8. What does Fara point out to Hardin about psychology?

9. How does Asimov describe Gaal Dornick?

10. What reason does Gaal's lawyer give him for not being able to have a hearing with the Emperor?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the connection between consumerism and individuality as seen in the emergence of the merchant princes?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how Asimov uses tone to change and enhance the pace of the narrative path of the story.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the political evolution from psychohistorians to merchant princes. What are the implications and consequences of a politicized society?

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