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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Joranum refuses to believe that psychohistory in how many years of intense work has yielded no practical tools?
(a) 3.
(b) 16.
(c) 25.
(d) 8.

2. 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) Eto Demerzel.
(c) Hari Seldon.
(d) Jo-Jo Joranum's.

3. In Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 22, who practices laughing on cue for Hari and Dors before performing on camera?
(a) Jo-Jo Joranum.
(b) Eto Demerzel.
(c) Gleb Andorin.
(d) Emperor Agis XIV.

4. Who is Hari's adopted son?
(a) Gleb Andorin.
(b) Dors Venábili.
(c) Wanda Seldon.
(d) Raych Seldon.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What compact device for the first time allows psychohistorians to glimpse darkness and light in their science, as though through frosted glass?

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

3. Hari Seldon is a mathematician from what obscure outer world?

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

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who establishes the central conflict in Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 1? What is the conflict?

2. What do Hari and Eto discuss in Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 11?

3. What is Emperor Cleon I's viewpoint in Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 15?

4. What is the goal of the psychohistorians, as established in Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 1? How does Yugo Amaryl feel about this goal?

5. When and where does Part 2, Cleon I begin? Who is introduced in the first chapter?

6. How is imperial security described in Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 2?

7. How does Raych perform when he meets Gleb Andorin in Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 12?

8. Why is Raych charged in Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 14? What is Raych's impression of the police?

9. What device is introduced in Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 3?

10. How does Dors go about protecting Hari from a would-be assassin in Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 2?

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