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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) Eto Demerzel.
(d) Yugo Amaryl.

2. Kaspal Kaspalov is murdered where in Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 8?
(a) Dahl Sector.
(b) Mycogen Sector.
(c) Wye Sector.
(d) Anemoria Sector.

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

4. 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?
(a) The Galactic Empire.
(b) The Astro Empire.
(c) The Stellar Empire.
(d) The Solar Empire.

5. 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) Yugo Amaryl.
(b) Hari Seldon.
(c) Eto Demerzel.
(d) Jo-Jo Joranum's.

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

7. 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) A robot may not injure a human or allow one to come to harm.
(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.

8. 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) Yugo Amaryl's.
(b) Mandell Gruber's.
(c) Kaspal Kaspalov's.
(d) Raych Seldon's.

9. What is the time line of the Entun dynasty in the novel?
(a) 27,321 GE -27,339 GE.
(b) 17,420 GE - 17,494 GE.
(c) 9,543 GE - 9,608 GE.
(d) 11,988 GE - 12,038 GE.

10. What is a form of government in which a single entity rules with absolute power?
(a) Theocracy.
(b) Anarchy.
(c) Despotism.
(d) Democracy.

11. When Raych is brought in during Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 17, he instantly recognizes who, but gives no sign?
(a) Namarti.
(b) Yugo.
(c) Dors.
(d) Hari.

12. What is the name of the capital of the First Galactic Empire, which has the distinction of being entirely domed, except for the grounds of the Imperial Palace?
(a) Coyrem.
(b) Yumeng.
(c) Trantor.
(d) Hermex.

13. In Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 4, Hari rejects the idea that remnant Joranumites might plot to kill whom?
(a) Kaspal Kaspalov.
(b) Gleb Andorin.
(c) Dors Venábili.
(d) Emperor Cleon I.

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

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

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. What is Manella's last name in the novel?

3. Eto Demerzel claims to be working to thwart whom in Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 11?

4. Raych is frustrated by every sector's jealousy and greed as he works in what office in Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 7?

5. Having studied what almost-universal phenomenon, Hari concludes that it is overheating the Galaxy in Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 3?

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