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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did the Regions of Earth form a Federation, according to Dr. Calvin in “Evidence”?
(a) 1999.
(b) 2061.
(c) 2011.
(d) 2044.

2. 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) Shoot him.
(c) Hit him.
(d) Pray.

3. What is the name of the elderly head of U.S. Robots in the novel?
(a) Ashe.
(b) Donovan.
(c) Lanning.
(d) Quinn.

4. 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 D.
(c) Compartment 14.
(d) Compartment 10.

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

6. How long does The Brain say it will take to build a ship in “Escape!”?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 3 months.
(c) 2 months.
(d) 3 years.

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

8. What is the character of Levver’s first name in the novel?
(a) Peter.
(b) Abe.
(c) John.
(d) Michael.

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

10. Dr. Calvin tells the interviewer that when she was born, we had just been through what, in “Evidence”?
(a) The last Great Depression.
(b) The last Great Enlightenment.
(c) The last World War.
(d) The last Great Plague.

11. The area of the European Region covers how many square miles in “The Evitable Conflict”?
(a) 1,700,000,000.
(b) 7,500,000.
(c) 4,000,000.
(d) 500,000,000.

12. Dr. Calvin is almost how old in the beginning of “The Evitable Conflict”?
(a) 70.
(b) 40.
(c) 80.
(d) 50.

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

14. When Lanning and Calvin interview Byerley, he consumes what to disprove Quinn’s theory in “Evidence”?
(a) A peach.
(b) A banana.
(c) A pear.
(d) An apple.

15. The personality instilled in The Brain is described as being like what?
(a) A child.
(b) A man.
(c) A woman.
(d) A dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. Powell and Donovan liken the experience of crossing the interstellar jump to what in “Escape!”?

2. 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”?

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

4. What is the population of the Tropic Region in “The Evitable Conflict”?

5. Herbie reads Calvin’s thoughts and discovers that she is attracted to whom in “Liar!”?

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