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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Cleon I, Chapters 1-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 22, who practices laughing on cue for Hari and Dors before performing on camera?
(a) Emperor Agis XIV.
(b) Jo-Jo Joranum.
(c) Gleb Andorin.
(d) Eto Demerzel.

2. Who is the First Minister to Emperor Cleon I?
(a) Yugo Amaryl.
(b) Dors Venábili.
(c) Hari Seldon.
(d) Eto Demerzel.

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

4. What is the sector of the planet Trantor that for centuries provides servants to and rivals for power with the Entun Dynasty?
(a) Wye Sector.
(b) Oryx Sector.
(c) Dahl Sector.
(d) Mycogen. Sector.

5. Part 2 jumps forward to ten years into Hari's tenure in what office?
(a) Sixth Minister.
(b) First Minister.
(c) Second Minister.
(d) Fourth Minister.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Cleon I born in the novel?

2. Eto Demerzel claims to be working to thwart whom in Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 11?

3. In what year did Cleon I succeed to the Imperial Throne?

4. In Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 9, Cleon advises Hari that a few exemplary executions of saboteurs would be useful, Hari argues that this will only lead to what?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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