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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7 - Escape!.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Donovan in “Runaround,” he sent Speedy to the nearest mining pool which was how many miles away from Donovan and Powell’s location in “Runaround”?
(a) 17.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

2. What term refers to a deductive inference consisting of two premises and a conclusion, all of which are categorical propositions.?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Syllogism.
(c) Cataclysm.
(d) Irony.

3. What title has Lanning taken in “Escape!”?
(a) Director-Emeritus of Mathematics.
(b) Director-Emeritus of Marketing.
(c) Director-Emeritus of Communications.
(d) Director-Emeritus of Research.

4. When did the First Mercury Expedition take place, according to the narrative?
(a) 2011.
(b) 2005.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1999.

5. How many years had passed between the First Mercury Expedition and the arrival of Donovan and Powell in “Runaround”?
(a) 30.
(b) 20.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in “Escape!” that over the matter of hours the equivalent of how many “fat volumes of mathematical physics were fed into The Brain”?

2. According to the narrator in “Catch That Rabbit,” Powell had once jumped out of the window of a burning house dressed only in shorts and carrying what book?

3. When Donovan and Powell first locate Speedy in “Runaround,” Donovan describes him as sounding what?

4. In what year was the Second Mercury Expedition sent out, according to Susan Calvin?

5. What is The Brain’s answer when given the question: “If one and a half chickens lay one and a half eggs in one and a half days, how many eggs will nine chickens lay in nine days?”

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