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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Mandell Gruber's.
(d) Yugo Amaryl's.

2. Who comes to Hari to attempt to beg his way out of his appointment in Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 19?
(a) Mandell Gruber.
(b) Gennaro Mummery.
(c) Wanda Seldon.
(d) Emperor Cleon I.

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

4. 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) Dr. Bor Alurin.
(c) Eto Demerzel.
(d) Jo-Jo Joranum's.

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

6. What is Manella's last name in the novel?
(a) Dubanqua.
(b) Endelecki.
(c) Venábili.
(d) Andorin.

7. In Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 9, Cleon advises Hari that a few exemplary executions of saboteurs would be useful, Hari argues that this will only lead to what?
(a) Insurrection.
(b) Fear.
(c) Trust.
(d) Admiration.

8. Raych reveals that Eto is what in Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 18?
(a) A woman.
(b) A republican.
(c) A robot.
(d) A human.

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

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

11. By what name does Raych refer to himself in Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 12?
(a) Grobick.
(b) Ermine.
(c) Monrem.
(d) Planchet.

12. The planet Trantor is a complex of how many semi-autonomous sectors at the center of the Galaxy?
(a) 55.
(b) 800.
(c) 370.
(d) 200.

13. 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 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.

14. Who is a native of the Dahl Sector of Trantor and a brilliant self-taught mathematician languishing as a heatsink worker when Hari Seldon encounters him in Prelude to Foundation?
(a) Eto Demerzel.
(b) Jo-Jo Joranum's.
(c) Yugo Amaryl.
(d) Hari Seldon.

15. 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) Hari Seldon.
(b) Yugo Amaryl.
(c) Mandell Gruber.
(d) Emperor Cleon I.

Short Answer 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?

2. What is the name of Dahl's worst section, where Hari's adopted son goes to search for signs of rebellion?

3. What consists of 25 million inhabited worlds, all colonized so long ago that no one remembers a time when all humans inhabit a single tiny planet?

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

5. In Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 2, Hari comes upon a rowdy pro-Joranum demonstration led by whom?

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