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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the First Minister to Emperor Cleon I?
(a) Hari Seldon.
(b) Dors Venábili.
(c) Yugo Amaryl.
(d) Eto Demerzel.

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

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

4. Hari Seldon and Dors Venabili encountered Raych Seldon by accident in the wretched slums of what sector?
(a) Billibotton Dahl Sector.
(b) Nishaya Sector.
(c) Gumboot Sector.
(d) Mycogen Sector.

5. 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) Minimalism.
(b) Zerocity.
(c) Dividends.
(d) Nilchee.

6. In Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 8, Hari reveals that automatic damage control has failed in how many recent minor earthquakes?
(a) 21.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 12.

7. Emperor Cleon I was born in the same year as who?
(a) Eto Demerzel.
(b) Raych Seldon.
(c) Hari Seldon.
(d) Stettin Palver.

8. Who is Hari's protector and beloved spouse?
(a) Wanda Seldon.
(b) Raych Seldon.
(c) Dors Venábili.
(d) Namarti.

9. Whose policy consists of fostering and exploiting breakdowns in the infrastructure around Trantor to foment popular discontent in Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 5?
(a) Namarti's.
(b) Emperor Cleon I.
(c) Yugo Amaryl.
(d) Gennaro Mummery.

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

11. Who recognizes Yugo's story and agrees to pass along a coded message to Joranum in Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 16?
(a) Dr. Cinda Monay.
(b) Guardsman Sander Nee.
(c) Cpl. Quinber.
(d) Gen. Dugal Tennar.

12. In Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 9, Cleon is unaware of the requirement that gardeners be recruited from where?
(a) Wye.
(b) Outside Trantor.
(c) Dahl.
(d) Anemoria.

13. In Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 16, Andorin wants assurance that he will become what at the same time as Namarti becomes First Minister?
(a) Prime Minister.
(b) Emperor.
(c) Second Minister.
(d) Chief Gardener.

14. Kaspal Kaspalov is ordered to destroy ventilation in what sector any way he wishes in Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 5?
(a) Mycogen Sector.
(b) Wye Secor.
(c) Dahl Sector.
(d) Anemoria Sector.

15. In Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 21, Namarti says that who will infiltrate the Palace as gardeners?
(a) Andorin and Hari.
(b) Dors and Gleb.
(c) Dors and Andorin.
(d) Gleb and Hari.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hari Seldon is a mathematician from what obscure outer world?

2. What province of the Milky Way Galaxy, having few stars and no political importance, is located some 10,000 parsecs from Trantor?

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

4. What compact device for the first time allows psychohistorians to glimpse darkness and light in their science, as though through frosted glass?

5. What is the sector of the planet Trantor that for centuries provides servants to and rivals for power with the Entun Dynasty?

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