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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 is the third of the Three Laws of Robotics?
(a) A robot must strive to supersede authority from humankind when necessary.
(b) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
(c) A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
(d) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the other two Laws.

2. Powell refers to Cutie as a robot what in “Reason”?
(a) Antagonist.
(b) Jesus.
(c) Einstein.
(d) Descartes.

3. What word from the Introduction refers to excessive growth or accumulation of any kind?
(a) Interability.
(b) Introphy.
(c) Hypertrophy.
(d) Mosterity.

4. Where is the officer’s room described as being located in “Reason”?
(a) Solar Station #2.
(b) Solar Station #13.
(c) Solar Station #5.
(d) Solar Station #3.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Cutie refers to humans such as Powell and Donovan as being what, in “Reason”?

2. The narrator states in “Runaround” that it is one of Gregory Powell’s favorite platitudes that nothing is to be gained from what?

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

4. At the “Psycho-Math seminar” described by the narrator in the Introduction, who demonstrated the first mobile robot to be equipped with a voice?

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

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