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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7 - Escape!.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What robot model is Herbie in “Liar!”?
(a) PP-19.
(b) RB-34.
(c) DV-5.
(d) SPD-15.

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

3. What title did Susan Calvin hold at U.S. Robots, according to the narrator of the Introduction?
(a) “Director of Marketing.”
(b) “President of Mathematics.”
(c) “Roboanthropologist.”
(d) “Robopsychologist.”

4. As they're being dug out, Powell explains to Donovan that Dave's personal initiative circuitry was overwhelmed by what in “Catch That Rabbit”?
(a) Having to control the telescope.
(b) Having to control six robots in an emergency.
(c) Having to read human minds.
(d) Having to save a human life.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years had passed between the First Mercury Expedition and the arrival of Donovan and Powell in “Runaround”?

2. Dave and the subordinate robots communicate by what method in “Catch That Rabbit”?

3. Who does the Major-General say he is responsible to in an argument with Dr. Calvin in “Little Lost Robot”?

4. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the first mobile robot equipped with a voice was destined for the projected mines where?

5. Bogert is the head of what department at U.S. Robots in the novel?

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