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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. Bogert asks Herbie whether he's picked up anything in Lanning's thoughts about plans to do what in “Liar!”?
(a) Get married.
(b) Sell his house.
(c) Get divorced.
(d) Retire.

2. Bogert is the head of what department at U.S. Robots in the novel?
(a) Marketing.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Manufacturing.
(d) Customer Service.

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

4. When did a new social atmosphere in France tumble first the Bourbons and, eventually, the Hapsburgs, according to the Co-ordinator in “The Evitable Conflict”?
(a) 1665.
(b) 1789.
(c) 2051.
(d) 1911.

5. What Director of Research does the Co-ordinator say he’s spoken to about the Machines in “The Evitable Conflict”?
(a) Vincent Silver.
(b) Michael Ashe.
(c) Dr. Quinn.
(d) James Powell.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does the Major-General say he is responsible to in an argument with Dr. Calvin in “Little Lost Robot”?

3. 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”?

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

5. Calvin and Bogert are brought to the base because one of their robots of what model has disappeared in “Little Lost Robot”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has been related to Byerley regarding the problems in the Eastern Region in “The Evitable Conflict”?

2. Who issues the orders for the process of investigation in “Liar!”?

3. What situation does Dr. Lanning explain to Calvin and Bogert in the beginning of “Escape!”?

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

5. How does Dr. Calvin react to the information about the modified First Law in the robots in “Little Lost Robot”?

6. What is the conclusion of I, Robot as seen in “The Evitable Conflict”?

7. What do Dr. Calvin and Dr. Lanning relate to Francis Quinn after their interview with Stephen Byerley in “Evidence”?

8. What information does Francis Quinn present to Dr. Lanning in the beginning of “Evidence”?

9. What does Stephen Byerley communicate to Dr. Calvin in the beginning of “The Evitable Conflict”?

10. What do Calvin and Bogert discover to be the reason behind the missing robot in “Little Lost Robot”?

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