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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Nilchee.
(c) Dividends.
(d) Zerocity.

3. Hari tells of whose bravery during the murder attempt in Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 6?
(a) Dors Venábili.
(b) Dr. Bor Alurin.
(c) Mandell Gruber's.
(d) Emperor Agis XIV.

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

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

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

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

8. In Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 4, Hari states that while Joranum is dead, his followers could repeat the survival of the Globalists on Helicon of how many years ago?
(a) 2,400.
(b) 8,600.
(c) 9,200.
(d) 4,500.

9. Yugo favors using what to supplement insufficiently precise psychohistory?
(a) Arrogance.
(b) Imagination.
(c) Anger.
(d) Intuition.

10. Mandell Gruber does not want to be promoted to what position because it would force him to work indoors in Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 1?
(a) Head Driver.
(b) Prime Minister.
(c) Head of Security.
(d) Chief Gardener.

11. Who was Emperor Cleon I's father?
(a) Emperor Agis X.
(b) Emperor Stanel II.
(c) Emperor Agis XIV.
(d) Emperor Stanel VI.

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

13. In Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 24, Hari and Cleon discuss whose denunciation of Joranum?
(a) Sunmaster Fourteen's.
(b) Wanda Seldon's.
(c) Dr. Cinda Monay's.
(d) Gennaro Mummery's.

14. Hari Seldon is a mathematician from what obscure outer world?
(a) Temalcus.
(b) Helicon.
(c) Bonbert.
(d) Guroka.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 12, Dahl for the first time has elected how many Joranumites to its Council?

2. Dors Venabili, in Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 3, is angry that her husband has tangled with whose right-hand man?

3. In Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 21, Dors worries that Joranum could soon seize power, but who predicts that his movement will collapse?

4. Who reports to Namarti his confidence that Raych will do anything required of him in Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 13?

5. Emperor Cleon I was born in the same year as who?

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