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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 much of Trantor is underground?
(a) Nine-tenths.
(b) None.
(c) Half.
(d) Two-thirds.

2. What shocking thing does Hardin do to Lord Dorwin?
(a) Ignore him.
(b) Slap his face.
(c) Record his conversations.
(d) Insult his intelligence.

3. What is the name of the man that Gaal meets in the observation tower?
(a) Jael.
(b) Hari.
(c) Haldon.
(d) Jerril.

4. What is Dr. Pirenne's formal position on Terminus?
(a) Mayor.
(b) Chairman of the Board of Trustees.
(c) Chancellor.
(d) Viceroy of the university.

5. How many families are involved in the Seldon Project?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 20,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 40,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Gaal's lawyer on Trantor?

2. What is there very little of on Terminus?

3. How does Gaal describe Trantor to Hari Seldon?

4. How many years into the future can Seldon predict?

5. What does Lord Dorwin use often on his visit to Terminus?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the solution to the dilemma faced by Terminus at the fifty year point?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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