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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Mandell.
(b) Hari.
(c) Namarti.
(d) Dors.

2. 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?
(a) Psychohistory.
(b) Sociomathematics.
(c) Sociogeometry.
(d) Histomathematics.

3. Eto Demerzel claims to be working to thwart whom in Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 11?
(a) Jo-Jo Joranum.
(b) Dors Venábili.
(c) Hari Seldon.
(d) Gleb Andorin.

4. In Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 16, Andorin claims that the new man that he has enlisted is what?
(a) An idealist.
(b) An experienced assassin.
(c) A spy.
(d) A robot.

5. What attractive prostitute approaches Raych in Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 11?
(a) Mandell
(b) Manella.
(c) Gleb.
(d) Raych.

6. 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) Gennaro Mummery.
(b) Namarti's.
(c) Yugo Amaryl.
(d) Emperor Cleon I.

7. At what age did Hari Seldon travel to the center of the Galactic Universe to deliver a theoretical paper on psychohistory?
(a) 24.
(b) 37.
(c) 32.
(d) 17.

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

9. What compact device for the first time allows psychohistorians to glimpse darkness and light in their science, as though through frosted glass?
(a) The Gray Cistern.
(b) The Electro-Clarifier.
(c) The Orbital Star.
(d) The Prime Radiant.

10. What is Kaspal Kaspalov's last word before dying in Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 8?
(a) Love.
(b) Help.
(c) Chief.
(d) Friend.

11. Who concludes that civil war can break out on Trantor or in the Outer Worlds, but not in both in Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 3?
(a) Mandell Gruber.
(b) Hari Seldon.
(c) Yugo Amaryl.
(d) Emperor Cleon I.

12. What is the third 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.
(d) A robot must obey human orders unless such orders would conflict with the First Law.

13. Dors Venabili, in Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 3, is angry that her husband has tangled with whose right-hand man?
(a) Mandell Gruber.
(b) Jo-Jo Joranum's.
(c) Eto Demerzel.
(d) Dr. Bor Alurin.

14. What does Eto Demerzel tell Hari to call him in Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 11?
(a) Binbane.
(b) Roteen.
(c) Lingon.
(d) Daneel.

15. What is the sector of the planet Trantor that for centuries provides servants to and rivals for power with the Entun Dynasty?
(a) Dahl Sector.
(b) Mycogen. Sector.
(c) Wye Sector.
(d) Oryx Sector.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the protagonist of both Foundation prequels, Prelude to Foundation and Forward the Foundation?

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

3. Who is the last Galactic Emperor of the Entun dynasty?

4. What is the Zeroth Law of Robotics?

5. What is the second of the Three Laws of Robotics?

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