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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 9, Cleon informs Gruber of his elevation to what title?
(a) Computer Technician.
(b) Head Butler.
(c) Chief Gardener.
(d) Engineer.

2. Part 2 jumps forward to ten years into Hari's tenure in what office?
(a) Second Minister.
(b) Fourth Minister.
(c) Sixth Minister.
(d) First Minister.

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

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

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

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

7. Who reports to Namarti his confidence that Raych will do anything required of him in Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 13?
(a) Mandell Gruber.
(b) Yugo Amaryl.
(c) Gleb Andorin.
(d) Hari Seldon.

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

9. What is the second 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.A robot may not injure a human or allow one to come to harm.
(d) Laws which humans make are too difficult to obey.

10. Who prepares to infiltrate the multitude of new gardeners who will be brought in, subject to minimal security in Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 13?
(a) Hari.
(b) Dors.
(c) Mandell.
(d) Namarti.

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

12. In Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 4, Dors questions Hari as to why what must be lost?
(a) The Truth.
(b) The Intuition.
(c) The Periphery.
(d) The Enlightenment.

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

14. In what year did Cleon I succeed to the Imperial Throne?
(a) 19, 982 GE.
(b) 15,128 GE.
(c) 12,010 GE.
(d) 9,872 GE.

15. When was Cleon I born in the novel?
(a) 18,568 GE
(b) 8,933 GE.
(c) 4,529 GE.
(d) 11,988 GE.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 19, Cleon goes to whose office to ask about the anti-robot flier?

2. Kaspal Kaspalov is murdered where in Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 8?

3. Who is the First Minister to Emperor Cleon I?

4. At what age did Hari Seldon travel to the center of the Galactic Universe to deliver a theoretical paper on psychohistory?

5. In Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 4, Hari rejects the idea that remnant Joranumites might plot to kill whom?

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