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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What title has Lanning taken in “Escape!”?
(a) Director-Emeritus of Marketing.
(b) Director-Emeritus of Mathematics.
(c) Director-Emeritus of Communications.
(d) Director-Emeritus of Research.

2. Who is the young head of the physics department of the Hyperatomic Drive Project in “Little Lost Robot”?
(a) Gerald Black.
(b) Francis Quinn.
(c) Pollack.
(d) Stephen Byerley.

3. What Latin theatrical term does Dr. Calvin refer to in “The Evitable Conflict”?
(a) Antagonist.
(b) Protagonist.
(c) Deus ex machina.
(d) Omniscient narrator.

4. As Byerley begins to speak at a public rally in “Evidence,” an unkempt looking man charges the stage and demands that Byerley do what?
(a) Levitate.
(b) Pray.
(c) Hit him.
(d) Shoot him.

5. What does Dr. Calvin call out over her shoulder to the press as she leaves the public rally in “Evidence”?
(a) “He’s human.”
(b) “He’s a Machine.”
(c) “He’s God.”
(d) “He’s a robot.”

6. According to Calvin in “Liar!,” the kind of harm referred to in the First Law is expanding to include the concept of what in Herbie?
(a) Emotional pain.
(b) Physical pain.
(c) Existential dilemma.
(d) Hypothetical pain.

7. What is the missing robot referred to as in “Little Lost Robot”?
(a) Herby.
(b) Speedy.
(c) Cutie.
(d) Nestor 10.

8. What is the name of a group of non-religious, anti-robot activists in “Evidence”?
(a) Micromaniacs.
(b) Misogynists.
(c) Fundamentalists.
(d) Powerists.

9. What year is it in the beginning of “Liar!”?
(a) 2021.
(b) 2116.
(c) 1999.
(d) 2001.

10. When she is leaving Stephen Byerley’s office, Dr. Calvin tells him that she hopes to vote for him in five years for what in “Evidence”?
(a) President.
(b) Co-ordinator.
(c) Mayor.
(d) Governor.

11. Susan Calvin takes Herbie two kinds of books in “Liar!” What is the second type of books?
(a) Shakespearean plays.
(b) Postmodern dramas.
(c) Romance novels.
(d) Mystery novels.

12. Of hearing of the modifications made to the robots in “Little Lost Robot,” Dr. Calvin suggests what?
(a) The robots all be reprogrammed.
(b) The robots all be modified.
(c) The robots be sent to Earth.
(d) The robots all be destroyed.

13. Susan Calvin says in “Little Lost Robot” that her first connection with interstellar research was in what year?
(a) 2011.
(b) 2155.
(c) 2029.
(d) 2010.

14. Lanning is known to be over how old in “Escape!”?
(a) 75.
(b) 85.
(c) 50.
(d) 48.

15. How long does it take Dr. Calvin to interview all of the robots in “Little Lost Robot”?
(a) 2 days.
(b) 2 weeks.
(c) 5 hours.
(d) 2 hours.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the head of mechanics and manufacturing at U.S. Robots in “Liar!”?

2. What does Bogert tell robot number fourteen will destroy his brain and kill him instantly in “Little Lost Robot”?

3. Dr. Calvin is almost how old in the beginning of “The Evitable Conflict”?

4. What does the Co-ordinator say “reports an overproduction of twenty thousand long tons” in the beginning of “The Evitable Conflict”?

5. What is Ashe’s first name in the novel?

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