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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 16, Raych sits in a cell listening to whose rote lecture about civil order?
(a) Guardsman Sander Nee's.
(b) Emperor Agis XIV's.
(c) Col. Hender Linn's.
(d) Cpl. Quinber's.

2. Who is the last Galactic Emperor of the Entun dynasty?
(a) Emperor Cleon I.
(b) Emperor Gleb Andorin.
(c) Emperor Wanda Seldon.
(d) Emperor Stettin Palver.

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

4. Joranum refuses to believe that psychohistory in how many years of intense work has yielded no practical tools?
(a) 3.
(b) 25.
(c) 16.
(d) 8.

5. What is the second of the Three Laws of Robotics?
(a) A robot must protect its own existence, unless this conflicts with the First or Second Law.
(b) Laws which humans make are too difficult to obey.
(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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a fictional science in the Foundation universe which combines history, sociology, and mathematical statistics to make general predictions about the future behavior of very large groups of people?

2. What is the name of the capital of the First Galactic Empire, which has the distinction of being entirely domed, except for the grounds of the Imperial Palace?

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

4. What is the third of the Three Laws of Robotics?

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

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