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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 model robot is Cutie in “Reason”?
(a) QT-16.
(b) SPD-13.
(c) MPD-12.
(d) QT-1.

2. What expletive does Donovan remark upon hearing of Cutie’s skepticism in “Reason”?
(a) “Molten Mercury.”
(b) “Maddening Mars.”
(c) “Pulsing Pluto.”
(d) “Sizzling Saturn.”

3. Who had first taken out incorporation papers for U. S. Robot and Mechanical Men, Inc., according to the narrator in the Introduction?
(a) Lawrence Robertson.
(b) Major-General Kallner.
(c) Stephen Byerley.
(d) Francis Quinn.

4. What year is it in the Introduction to the novel?
(a) 1999.
(b) 2057.
(c) 1919.
(d) 2089.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Second Mercury Expedition was financed in part by U.S. Robots and in part by whom, according to Susan Calvin?

3. Gloria is playing what game with Robbie in the beginning of Chapter One, "Robbie”?

4. In what year does Susan Calvin say that the mobile speaking robot was invented in Chapter One, “Robbie”?

5. 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”?

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