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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 - Reason.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word, used to describe Robbie in Chapter One, “Robbie,” means cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness?
(a) Stubbornness.
(b) Alacrity.
(c) Irony.
(d) Mediocrity.

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

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

4. What temperature is Robbie’s metal skin kept at by high resistance coils in Chapter One, “Robbie”?
(a) 92.8 degrees.
(b) 96.8 degrees.
(c) 70 degrees.
(d) 75 degrees.

5. What is Speedy mining for when he disappears in “Runaround”?
(a) Selenium.
(b) Calcium.
(c) Silver.
(d) Magnesium.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city do Gloria’s parents take her to visit in Chapter One, “Robbie”?

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

3. In what year did Susan Calvin earn her Ph.D., according to the narrator of the Introduction?

4. According to Susan Calvin, the model of robot which included Robbie was sold to be used as what?

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

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