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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 - Catch the Rabbit.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The robot that Powell and Donovan put together to show Cutie how robots are made in “Reason” is a simple what model?
(a) MC.
(b) QT.
(c) PD.
(d) N-1.

2. In what year was Susan Calvin born?
(a) 1919.
(b) 2001.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1999.

3. Where did Susan Calvin obtain her bachelor’s degree, according to the narrator of the Introduction?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Yale University.
(c) M.I.T.
(d) Columbia University.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the narrator in the Introduction of I, Robot?

2. What story does Robbie plead for Gloria to tell him in Chapter One, “Robbie”?

3. Cutie refers to what as “the Master” in “Reason”?

4. What is the first of the Three Laws of Robotics?

5. Powell refers to Cutie as a robot what in “Reason”?

(see the answer key)

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