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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to the type of space suits worn by Powell and Donovan in “Runaround”?
(a) Insosuits.
(b) Mercosuits.
(c) Technosuits.
(d) Inulasuits.

2. The Second Mercury Expedition was financed in part by U.S. Robots and in part by whom, according to Susan Calvin?
(a) Plexar Glass.
(b) NBC Television.
(c) Consolidated Robots.
(d) Solar Minerals.

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

4. 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 #2.
(c) Law #1.
(d) Law #4.

5. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the first mobile robot equipped with a voice was destined for the projected mines where?
(a) Pluto.
(b) Mercury.
(c) Venus.
(d) Uranus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is Mike Donovan’s hair in “Runaround”?

2. What is the second of the Three Laws of Robotics?

3. Who tested Dave before he left the factory in “Catch That Rabbit”?

4. Powell tells Cutie that he will be back on Earth in about how much time in “Reason”?

5. How old is the company U. S. Robot and Mechanical Men, Inc. in the Introduction?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the robot Cutie described in the beginning of “Reason”? What objective does he state in the beginning of the story?

2. Where are Donovan and Powell in the beginning of “Catch That Rabbit”? What robot are they testing in this story?

3. How does Cutie describe his conclusions of existence to Donovan and Powell as they discover the coming storm in “Reason”?

4. How is the theme of faith explored in “Reason”?

5. Where are Donovan and Powell in the beginning of “Reason”? How much time has elapsed since “Runaround”?

6. What do the characters of Donovan and Powell represent symbolically in I, Robot?

7. What is the central objective of Gloria in “Robbie”? How does this relate to the story’s themes?

8. What is indicated about the personality of Dr. Susan Calvin in the Introduction?

9. What do Donovan and Powell observe when they first see Speedy in “Runaround”?

10. What is established through the exposition in the Introduction? Who are the characters that are first introduced?

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