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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. 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?
(a) Dividends.
(b) Nilchee.
(c) Zerocity.
(d) Minimalism.
2. Part 2 jumps forward to ten years into Hari's tenure in what office?
(a) Fourth Minister.
(b) First Minister.
(c) Sixth Minister.
(d) Second Minister.
3. What is the second of the Three Laws of Robotics?
(a) 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.
(b) A robot must protect its own existence, unless this conflicts with the First or Second Law.
(c) Laws which humans make are too difficult to obey.
(d) A robot must obey human orders unless such orders would conflict with the First Law.
4. What compact device for the first time allows psychohistorians to glimpse darkness and light in their science, as though through frosted glass?
(a) The Orbital Star.
(b) The Prime Radiant.
(c) The Gray Cistern.
(d) The Electro-Clarifier.
5. In Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 13, Dors reacts with cold disapproval when Hari reveals that he expects whose famous charm to win over Joranum and save the Empire?
(a) Raych Seldon's.
(b) Kaspal Kaspalov's.
(c) Yugo Amaryl's.
(d) Mandell Gruber's.
Short Answer Questions
1. Dors Venabili, in Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 3, is angry that her husband has tangled with whose right-hand man?
2. In Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 12, Dahl for the first time has elected how many Joranumites to its Council?
3. Joranum refuses to believe that psychohistory in how many years of intense work has yielded no practical tools?
4. Who was Emperor Cleon I's father?
5. Who recognizes Yugo's story and agrees to pass along a coded message to Joranum in Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 16?
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