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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapters 11-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 13, Dors reacts with cold disapproval when Hari reveals that he expects whose famous charm to win over Joranum and save the Empire?
(a) Yugo Amaryl's.
(b) Raych Seldon's.
(c) Mandell Gruber's.
(d) Kaspal Kaspalov's.

2. What economically depressed sector of the planet Trantor produces energy in heatsinks dug deep underground near the superheated planetary magma?
(a) Mycogen.
(b) Anacreon.
(c) Nishaya.
(d) Dahl.

3. What is the second of the Three Laws of Robotics?
(a) Laws which humans make are too difficult to obey.
(b) A robot must protect its own existence, unless this conflicts with the First or Second Law.
(c) A robot may not injure a human or allow one to come to harm.A robot may not injure a human or allow one to come to harm.
(d) A robot must obey human orders unless such orders would conflict with the First Law.

4. The planet Trantor is a complex of how many semi-autonomous sectors at the center of the Galaxy?
(a) 55.
(b) 800.
(c) 200.
(d) 370.

5. Eto Demerzel claims to be working to thwart whom in Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 11?
(a) Gleb Andorin.
(b) Hari Seldon.
(c) Jo-Jo Joranum.
(d) Dors Venábili.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 2, Hari comes upon a rowdy pro-Joranum demonstration led by whom?

2. When was Cleon I born in the novel?

3. Who is a native of the Dahl Sector of Trantor and a brilliant self-taught mathematician languishing as a heatsink worker when Hari Seldon encounters him in Prelude to Foundation?

4. Joranum refuses to believe that psychohistory in how many years of intense work has yielded no practical tools?

5. What is the Zeroth Law of Robotics?

(see the answer key)

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