1. Hoover has set up a conflict between the good person General Ambrose appears to be and the repressive government he apparently supports.

Discuss this conflict. Examine the general's personality in detail. Discover any hints you can concerning his opinions about the government. Use the discussion you have found here as a starting point, but go beyond it.

2. Examine everything you know about the two governments in the book, that of Earth and that of the Shepherd Moon. What similarities do you see? What differences? Is one worse than the other? Can one side be defined as the good guys?

3. Read Aldous Huxley's classic science fiction novel Brave New World and write a paper discussing the similarities between the society of that book and the society of the Shepherd Moon.

4. Prejudice often goes in both directions. Examine Merry's relationship with Worth...