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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. What is the Zeroth Law 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 harm humanity at large, or allow it to come to harm.
(d) A robot must obey human orders unless such orders would conflict with the First Law.

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

3. In Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 2, Hari comes upon a rowdy pro-Joranum demonstration led by whom?
(a) Hari Seldon.
(b) Namarti.
(c) Dors Venábili.
(d) Emperor Cleon I.

4. In Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 2, Hari obsesses about turning how old?
(a) 40.
(b) 50.
(c) 21.
(d) 30.

5. What is the name of Dahl's worst section, where Hari's adopted son goes to search for signs of rebellion?
(a) Mycogen.
(b) Wye.
(c) Dahl .
(d) Billibotton.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 16, Raych sits in a cell listening to whose rote lecture about civil order?

2. Jo-Jo Joranum was born in what sector of Trantor?

3. What key concept of psychohistory states that because any action can have unpredictable, chaotic effects, all actions must be as close to zero as possible?

4. In Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 24, Hari and Cleon discuss whose denunciation of Joranum?

5. Dors Venabili, in Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 3, is angry that her husband has tangled with whose right-hand man?

(see the answer key)

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