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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Powell tells Cutie that he will be back on Earth in about how much time in “Reason”?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 2 weeks.
(c) 3 days.
(d) 1 week.

2. What is the name of the elderly head of U.S. Robots in the novel?
(a) Lanning.
(b) Donovan.
(c) Quinn.
(d) Ashe.

3. Herbie reads Calvin’s thoughts and discovers that she is attracted to whom in “Liar!”?
(a) Ashe.
(b) Powell.
(c) Speedy.
(d) Donovan.

4. Susan Calvin takes Herbie two kinds of books in “Liar!” What is the first type of books?
(a) Mystery novels.
(b) Shakespearean plays.
(c) Mathematical textbooks.
(d) Postmodern dramas.

5. What is “heading straight dead center across the Earth beam” in “Reason”?
(a) An electron storm.
(b) A giant asteroid.
(c) A black hole.
(d) A lost planet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What expletive does Donovan remark upon hearing of Cutie’s skepticism in “Reason”?

2. What is Bogert’s first name in the novel?

3. According to Calvin in “Liar!,” the kind of harm referred to in the First Law is expanding to include the concept of what in Herbie?

4. Powell and Donovan found that out after they had been on the Station (in “Runaround”) for less than how long from in “Reason”?

5. What does Donovan spit on causing conflict in “Reason”?

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