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

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

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose policy consists of fostering and exploiting breakdowns in the infrastructure around Trantor to foment popular discontent in Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 5?

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?

3. In Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 2, Hari obsesses about turning how old?

4. What refers to the act of deliberately killing someone, especially a public figure, usually for hire or for political reasons?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How is "minimalism" described in Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 1?

2. Why is Hari upset in Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 15? What data does he intend to evaluate?

3. How if psychohistory viewed by the Empire's leaders and by Hari in Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 1?

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

5. What news does Hari see as significant regarding the future in Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 12?

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

7. How does the theme of aging play a role in Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 2, and in the novel as a whole?

8. Where is Raych in Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 10? What is his objective?

9. What references does Hari use to support his case regarding nature in Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 3?

10. Where is Raych in Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 14? What is his perception of the setting?

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