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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 - Catch the Rabbit.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year does Susan Calvin say that the mobile speaking robot was invented in Chapter One, “Robbie”?
(a) 1999.
(b) 2012.
(c) 2002.
(d) 2010.

2. Powell realizes that the only way to solve the Speedy situation in “Runaround” is to invoke which of the Laws of Robotics?
(a) Law #3.
(b) Law #4.
(c) Law #1.
(d) Law #2.

3. In what year did Susan Calvin obtain her bachelor’s degree, according to the narrator of the Introduction?
(a) 2009.
(b) 2003.
(c) 2010.
(d) 1995.

4. The Second Mercury Expedition was financed in part by U.S. Robots and in part by whom, according to Susan Calvin?
(a) Consolidated Robots.
(b) Plexar Glass.
(c) NBC Television.
(d) Solar Minerals.

5. What is the name of the general manager that takes Gloria’s family on a tour of a robot manufacturing company in Chapter One, “Robbie”?
(a) Mr. Weston.
(b) Mr. Powell.
(c) Mr. Struthers.
(d) Mr. Lanning.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the point of the novel’s Introduction, Susan Calvin is how old?

2. What do the robots in “Catch That Rabbit” begin doing when they are supposedly unobserved by Powell and Donovan at the mines?

3. What city do Gloria’s parents take her to visit in Chapter One, “Robbie”?

4. According to Powell in “Catch That Rabbit,” if Powell and Donovan had what tester, they could check each individual item in Dave’s body within twenty-four to forty-eight hours?

5. Dave and the subordinate robots communicate by what method in “Catch That Rabbit”?

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