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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 Fall of the Galactic Empire is what?
(a) Avoidable.
(b) Inevitable.
(c) Distant.
(d) Imminent.

2. Seldon tells Gaal that the man he met at the tower was from what?
(a) Office of Public Laws.
(b) Commission of Public Safety.
(c) Govenor's Office.
(d) Secret Police.

3. Who informs Gaal that he is under detention from the government of Trantor?
(a) Police.
(b) Hotel maid.
(c) Hotel clerk.
(d) Hari Seldon.

4. The population of Trantor is in excess of what number?
(a) 40 billion.
(b) 500 million.
(c) 50 million.
(d) 10 billion.

5. Who is helping Hardin take over the board?
(a) Pirenne.
(b) Fara.
(c) Dorwin.
(d) Lee.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Gaal Dornick from?

2. What does Anacreon propose to give to Terminus?

3. What is the nickname for Hari Seldon?

4. What degree does Gaal have?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hardin's analysis of the conversations he secretly taped with Lord Dorwin show?

2. How does Asimov describe Gaal Dornick?

3. What does Hardin tell Pirenne is Terminus' interest beyond the Encyclopedia?

4. What does the image of Hari Seldon tell the board was the true purpose of the Encyclopedia?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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