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

2. What is the missing robot referred to as in “Little Lost Robot”?
(a) Herby.
(b) Speedy.
(c) Nestor 10.
(d) Cutie.

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

4. Susan Calvin takes Herbie two kinds of books in “Liar!” What is the first type of books?
(a) Shakespearean plays.
(b) Postmodern dramas.
(c) Mathematical textbooks.
(d) Mystery novels.

5. Who is the son of the founder of U.S. Robot and Mechanical Men Corporation?
(a) Donovan.
(b) Robertson.
(c) Lanning.
(d) Jameson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year is it in the beginning of “Liar!”?

2. What does the Co-ordinator say “reports an overproduction of twenty thousand long tons” in the beginning of “The Evitable Conflict”?

3. Who is the young head of the physics department of the Hyperatomic Drive Project in “Little Lost Robot”?

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”?

5. Bogert asks Herbie whether he's picked up anything in Lanning's thoughts about plans to do what in “Liar!”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is significant about the conclusions of Byerley’s identity in “Evidence”?

2. What types of books does Dr. Calvin bring to Herbie in “Liar!” Which does he prefer?

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

4. What problem is presented in the beginning of “Little Lost Robot”?

5. What is asked by the Sub-Coordinator of the European Region in “The Evitable Conflict”?

6. What is significant about the malfunction of The Brain in “Escape!”?

7. Whom does Stephen Byerley care for secretly in “Evidence”? How does this character respond to the information about the interview?

8. What is decided as the course of action among the executives in the beginning of “Escape!”?

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

10. How does Stephen Byerley attempt to disprove the allegation against him in the interview with Calvin and Lanning in “Evidence”? How does Dr. Calvin respond?

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