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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. The next period of time will be known as what?
(a) Barbarism.
(b) Exploration.
(c) Darkness.
(d) Enlightenment.

2. The man selling tour tickets in Trantor tells Gaal that he has not been outside in ________ years.
(a) Three.
(b) Seven.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

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

4. What did Hardin study briefly?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Religion.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Politics.

5. What does Hardin use to interpret the treaty and letter from Anacreon?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Symbolic logic.
(c) Synthesis language.
(d) Computer program.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has Seldon truly been preparing to go to Terminus?

2. Where does Seldon predict that another scientific refuge will be set up?

3. Who informs Gaal that he is under detention from the government of Trantor?

4. What is Hari Seldon in when he appears to the board?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gaal want to see the most as he travels to and around Trantor?

2. What does Fara point out to Hardin about psychology?

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

4. What is Gaal shocked to learn at the end of the first chapter?

5. How does Asimov describe Gaal Dornick?

6. What is Lord Dorwin's purpose for visiting Terminus?

7. Why is Hardin concerned that Anacreon has crowned a king?

8. What does Seldon tell the commission when they ask him if there is any way to change the outcome of his prediction?

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

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

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