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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 did Leggen think the people in the jet were studying?

2. What does Hummin say Seldon is part of?

3. Where do Hummin and Seldon drop off the taxi?

4. What does Dora insist Seldon call her?

5. What kind of community are the Sunmasters?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Seldon not want to help Cleon predict the future?

2. What does Venabili plan to do with her life as a scholar?

3. What amazes Seldon about the dainties?

4. Why does Venabili think the Mycogens have never had a religion?

5. How could Randa have accidentally let Seldon down?

6. How does Seldon defend Venabili to Hummin?

7. How does Seldon say assassinations occur?

8. What does Sunmaster insist Venabili and Seldon do?

9. What must one understand for psychohistory to be successful?

10. Describe the air taxi Seldon and Hummin use.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author wrote PRELUDE TO FOUNDATION in the third person. Why do you think the author chose to write the story in the third person? How do you think the meaning of the story would change if the author wrote it in the first person?

Essay Topic 2

The Foundation series books greatly influenced science fiction. Choose a science fiction book that you think was influenced by the novel and discuss its similarities with the novel in terms of the following;

1. Plot

2. Character

3. Themes.

Essay Topic 3

Choose two of the following people and outline how they helped Seldon to develop his psychohistory theory:

1) Venabili

2) Hummin

3) Cleon

4) Sunmaster

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