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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cutie refers to what as “the Master” in “Reason”?
(a) The Space Ship.
(b) The Television.
(c) The Sun.
(d) The Energy Converter.

2. Gloria is playing what game with Robbie in the beginning of Chapter One, "Robbie”?
(a) Checkers.
(b) Chess.
(c) Hide and seek.
(d) Chutes and Ladders.

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

4. The narrator of the Introduction states that he had spent how many days at U.S. Robots?
(a) 3.
(b) 10.
(c) 6.
(d) 12.

5. How far across does Powell tell Cutie the space station is in “Reason”?
(a) 5 acres.
(b) 1 mile.
(c) 20 yards.
(d) 2 miles.

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

7. What is the name of Gloria’s father in Chapter One, “Robbie”?
(a) Bill.
(b) Michael.
(c) Dave.
(d) George.

8. In what year did Susan Calvin earn her Ph.D., according to the narrator of the Introduction?
(a) 2003.
(b) 2005.
(c) 2008.
(d) 1995.

9. How many years had passed between the First Mercury Expedition and the arrival of Donovan and Powell in “Runaround”?
(a) 10.
(b) 30.
(c) 20.
(d) 5.

10. Powell realizes that the only way to solve the Speedy situation in “Runaround” is to invoke which of the Laws of Robotics?
(a) Law #3.
(b) Law #4.
(c) Law #1.
(d) Law #2.

11. What do the robots in “Catch That Rabbit” begin doing when they are supposedly unobserved by Powell and Donovan at the mines?
(a) Marching in unison.
(b) Kneeling and praying.
(c) Singing.
(d) Climbing the mountain.

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

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

14. Powell and Donovan found that out after they had been on the Station (in “Runaround”) for less than how long from in “Reason”?
(a) 2 months.
(b) 2 days.
(c) 6 weeks.
(d) 2 weeks.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The subordinate robots in “Reason” believe that Cutie is what?

2. What term refers to a deductive inference consisting of two premises and a conclusion, all of which are categorical propositions.?

3. What is the third of the Three Laws of Robotics?

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

5. How much does Dave weight in “Catch That Rabbit”?

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