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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gloria is playing what game with Robbie in the beginning of Chapter One, "Robbie”?
(a) Chess.
(b) Checkers.
(c) Hide and seek.
(d) Chutes and Ladders.

2. How long have Powell and Donovan been on Mercury in the beginning of “Runaround”?
(a) 6 hours.
(b) 4 days.
(c) 12 hours.
(d) 2 weeks.

3. In what year does Susan Calvin say that the mobile speaking robot was invented in Chapter One, “Robbie”?
(a) 2010.
(b) 2002.
(c) 2012.
(d) 1999.

4. In what year did Susan Calvin obtain her bachelor’s degree, according to the narrator of the Introduction?
(a) 1995.
(b) 2003.
(c) 2010.
(d) 2009.

5. How old is the company U. S. Robot and Mechanical Men, Inc. in the Introduction?
(a) 50.
(b) 100.
(c) 75.
(d) 62.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year is it in the Introduction to the novel?

2. What surrounds the mining pool, causing danger to Speedy, in “Runaround”?

3. How old is Gloria in Chapter One, “Robbie”?

4. Powell realizes that the only way to solve the Speedy situation in “Runaround” is to invoke which of the Laws of Robotics?

5. When did the First Mercury Expedition take place, according to the narrative?

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