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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. How many more years at the beginning of the Encyclopedists until the first volume of the Encyclopedia Foundation Number One will be published?
(a) One.
(b) Two,
(c) Ten.
(d) Five.

2. What degree does Gaal have?
(a) Doctor of Mathematics.
(b) Doctor of Physics.
(c) Doctor of History.
(d) Doctor of Psychohistory.

3. Where is Gaal Dornick from?
(a) Synnax.
(b) Solara.
(c) Swinenna.
(d) Symrna.

4. How many mathematicians does Seldon have working on his project?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 500.
(c) 51.
(d) 5001.

5. How much time does the Foundation have before Anacreon arrives on Terminus?
(a) Six months.
(b) Seven weeks.
(c) One week.
(d) One day.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many paths are open to the future of Terminus after 50 years?

2. His lawyer tells Gaal that the Emperor of today is not the Emperor of the _______ dynasty.

3. What are Seldon and Gaal offered as they meet with the commission at the close of the trial?

4. Who does Gaal demand that his lawyer arrange a hearing with immediately?

5. As Gaal travels up to the observation tower, he sees no what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What sort of things does the commission question Gaal about when he is first put into detention?

2. What happens on the 50th anniversary of Terminus?

3. How does Hari Seldon calculate that a disaster will befall the Empire in 300 years?

4. What reason does Gaal's lawyer give him for not being able to have a hearing with the Emperor?

5. What does the image of Hari Seldon tell the board on Terminus is the path of the future?

6. What is Seldon's punishment from the Emperor?

7. Why is Terminus of interest to the planet Anacrea?

8. What does the treaty between Anacreon and the Empire mean for Terminus?

9. What unsettling experience does Gaal have as he travels up to the observation tower in Trantor?

10. What does Gaal see from the observation tower of the Luxor hotel?

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