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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Donovan suggest the ship be sent in the end of “Escape!”?
(a) Consolidated Robots.
(b) The Canadian Military.
(c) U.S. Robots.
(d) The U.S. Military.

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

3. Gerald Black informs Dr. Calvin and others that the locks where in the trading ship have been tampered with in “Little Lost Robot”?
(a) Compartment C.
(b) Compartment 14.
(c) Compartment D.
(d) Compartment 10.

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

5. Bogert asks Dr. Calvin if they could find the lost robot by questioning the robots about what in “Little Lost Robot”?
(a) Romance novels.
(b) Etheric physics.
(c) Television shows.
(d) Quantum physics.

6. The only visible control or monitor built by The Brain is one that displays distance traveled in what, in “Escape!”?
(a) Decibels.
(b) Millimeters.
(c) Parsecs.
(d) Microns.

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

8. Dr. Calvin tells the interviewer that when she was born what had come to an end in “Evidence”?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Communism.
(c) Nationalism.
(d) Christianity.

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

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

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

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

13. When did Stephen Byerley first enter public office, according to Dr. Calvin in “Evidence”?
(a) 1999.
(b) 2032.
(c) 2016.
(d) 2050.

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

15. Dr. Calvin says in the end of “Evidence” that when Stephen Byerley decided to die, he had himself what?
(a) Sent to the moon.
(b) Atomized.
(c) Cremated.
(d) Buried at sea.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in “Escape!” that over the matter of hours the equivalent of how many “fat volumes of mathematical physics were fed into The Brain”?

2. 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?

3. Susan Calvin takes Herbie two kinds of books in “Liar!” What is the first type of books?

4. Where does the Co-ordinator say that the Mercury mines have experienced a production deficiency since last spring in “The Evitable Conflict”?

5. The personality instilled in The Brain is described as being like what?

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