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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What position does Stephen Byerley hold when he first runs for public office in “Evidence”?
(a) County sheriff.
(b) District attorney.
(c) Corporate judge.
(d) Bank president.

2. Bogert tells the military officer in “Little Lost Robot” that Dr. Calvin has what kind of tendencies?
(a) Homicidal.
(b) Alcoholic.
(c) Paranoid.
(d) Suicidal.

3. What is The Brain’s answer when given the question: “If one and a half chickens lay one and a half eggs in one and a half days, how many eggs will nine chickens lay in nine days?”
(a) 12.
(b) 29.
(c) 54.
(d) 14.

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. Powell and Donovan liken the experience of crossing the interstellar jump to what in “Escape!”?
(a) Having a nightmare.
(b) Being drunk.
(c) Being dead.
(d) Doing drugs.

6. Who saves Dr. Calvin from being attacked by the robot in the end of “Little Lost Robot”?
(a) Gerald Black.
(b) The Brain.
(c) Bogert.
(d) Dr. Lanning.

7. What is Lanning’s first name in the novel?
(a) Peter.
(b) Alfred.
(c) Michael.
(d) Winfred.

8. What character in “Evidence” is described as maimed and crippled?
(a) Andrew.
(b) James.
(c) Brian.
(d) John.

9. What numbered robot does Dr. Calvin ask if it were in the “Radiation Room of Building Two about four hours ago”?
(a) 28.
(b) 1.
(c) 19.
(d) 67.

10. What medieval curiosity does the narrator say the Co-ordinator has in his private study in "The Evitable Conflict"?
(a) A chandelier.
(b) A fireplace.
(c) A torch-holder.
(d) A guillotine.

11. In “Evidence,” Calvin and Lanning tell Quinn they have no proof about Byerley's identity and that the only way to prove he's a robot is to either dissect him or what?
(a) Conduct DNA testing.
(b) Behead him.
(c) Photograph him.
(d) X-ray him.

12. Who is the head of mechanics and manufacturing at U.S. Robots in “Liar!”?
(a) Bogert.
(b) Ashe.
(c) Powell.
(d) Lanning.

13. Who does the Major-General say he is responsible to in an argument with Dr. Calvin in “Little Lost Robot”?
(a) His men.
(b) The U.S. President.
(c) The World Co-ordinator.
(d) Dr. Lanning.

14. What does Bogert tell robot number fourteen will destroy his brain and kill him instantly in “Little Lost Robot”?
(a) Gamma rays.
(b) Radium rays.
(c) Laser rays.
(d) Beta rays.

15. Stephen Byerley went on to become the first what in his political career, according to Dr. Calvin in “Evidence”?
(a) Robotic Governor.
(b) Robotic Emperor.
(c) World Co-ordinator.
(d) Global President.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are Dr. Calvin and the Co-ordinator in the beginning of “The Evitable Conflict”?

2. Where does Donovan suggest the ship be sent in the end of “Escape!”?

3. What does the Co-ordinator say is two months behind schedule in “The Evitable Conflict”?

4. Dr. Calvin tells the interviewer that when she was born, we had just been through what, in “Evidence”?

5. Dr. Calvin tells the interviewer that when she was born what had come to an end in “Evidence”?

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