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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What brings Baley out of a deep sleep?
(a) Wake up drugs.
(b) Daneel shaking him gently.
(c) Auroran chimes.
(d) A knocking on his door.

2. What thought panics Baley as he thinks about Giskard?
(a) That another robot could be exchanged for him.
(b) That he might misdirect him into danger.
(c) That he might have killed Jander.
(d) That he is not recording all the conversations.

3. What is Baley's clinical problem?
(a) Acute acrophobia.
(b) Acute sleep apnea.
(c) Acute arachnidophobia.
(d) Acute agoraphobia.

4. What must Baley prove about Fastolfe according to Demacheck?
(a) That he is the one who murdered the humaniform robot.
(b) That he is innocent of murdering a humaniform robot.
(c) That he masterminds the murder of humaniform robots.
(d) That he secretly hates all humaniform robots.

5. How does Vasilia agree to speak with Baley?
(a) With Giskard in the room with them.
(b) By astral telepathy.
(c) With assurance he will not ask about her father.
(d) For five minutes via trimensic channel.

6. How is Baley transported to Aurora?
(a) In a comfortable Auroran spaceship.
(b) In a time/space travel machine.
(c) In a robot spaceship.
(d) On a commercial freight ship.

7. What haunts Baley throughout the entire novel?
(a) An unauthorized biography.
(b) A dramatization of his mission to Solaria.
(c) His near death experience on Solaria.
(d) Fear for his son's safety.

8. Who is the only surviving humaniform robot?
(a) Giskard.
(b) Daneel.
(c) Fastolfe.
(d) Jander.

9. What is Fastolfe's explanation for Jander's demise?
(a) An extremely rare spontaneous event.
(b) A fanatic humaniform hater.
(c) A malfunction of Jander's circuitry.
(d) A rare electrical surge.

10. Why does Baley think he might be caught in a hoax?
(a) Because he has been locked away.
(b) Because Giskard is just an appliance.
(c) Because Daneel seems strange.
(d) Because Aurora looks so much like Earth.

11. In isolation, who is Baley's only contact?
(a) R. Lavinia Demacheck.
(b) R. Jander Panell.
(c) R. Giskard Reventlov.
(d) R. Daneel Olivaw.

12. What does Baley suspect Fastolfe may have ordered Daneel to do?
(a) To ignore questions about Jander.
(b) To lie about lying.
(c) To deny Jander was given to Gladia.
(d) To report everything Baley says.

13. To where does Fastolfe say Earth humans have swept natural indigenous species?
(a) Into extinction.
(b) Onto other planets.
(c) Into memory.
(d) Into zoos.

14. What are Auroran robots able to handle better than Earth robots?
(a) Complex situations.
(b) Personal service to humans.
(c) The Three Laws of Robotics.
(d) Piloting spacecraft.

15. What is the Outside work party led by Elijah Baley planning to do?
(a) Train robots to work outside the domes.
(b) Colonize another world
(c) Rebuild houses after a hurricane.
(d) Organize a Spacer garden.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fastolfe is evasive about what as Baley questions him?

2. What social convention of the Aurorans takes some getting used to for Baley?

3. Baley finally become acclimated to what?

4. What is necessary for conversation to conform to the humaniform mindset?

5. What amenity is used to test Baley's ability to function on Aurora?

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