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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 - Runaround.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the beginning of “Runaround,” Donovan informs Powell that Speedy has been gone for how many hours?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 8.

2. What story does Robbie plead for Gloria to tell him in Chapter One, “Robbie”?
(a) “Bambi.”
(b) “Hansel and Gretel.”
(c) “Snow White.”
(d) “Cinderella.”

3. At the point of the novel’s Introduction, Susan Calvin is how old?
(a) 62.
(b) 75.
(c) 25.
(d) 89.

4. 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) 10.
(b) 2.
(c) 17.
(d) 5.

5. At the “Psycho-Math seminar” described by the narrator in the Introduction, who demonstrated the first mobile robot to be equipped with a voice?
(a) Dr. Black.
(b) Bogert.
(c) Dr. Lanning.
(d) Dr. Calvin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Gloria’s last name in Chapter One, “Robbie”?

2. What is Speedy mining for when he disappears in “Runaround”?

3. What is the model of the robot that Speedy is in “Runaround”?

4. Who had first taken out incorporation papers for U. S. Robot and Mechanical Men, Inc., according to the narrator in the Introduction?

5. What word from the Introduction refers to excessive growth or accumulation of any kind?

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