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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 is the population of the Tropic Region in “The Evitable Conflict”?
(a) 7,500,000.
(b) 500,000,000.
(c) 1,700,000,000.
(d) 4,000,000.

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

3. Who causes Herbie to self-destruct in “Liar!”?
(a) Bogert.
(b) Calvin.
(c) Powell.
(d) Speedy.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Donovan do when the ship returns to Earth in “Escape!”?

2. The company that has propositioned U.S. Robot in “Escape!” has promised how much money to U.S. Robot if there is no solution to their problem but U.S. Robot can tell them the missing factors?

3. What does Bogert tell robot number fourteen will destroy his brain and kill him instantly in “Little Lost Robot”?

4. When does Dr. Calvin say that Stephen Byerley died in “Evidence”?

5. In “Evidence,” Calvin and Lanning tell Quinn they have no proof about Byerley's identity and that the only way to prove he's a robot is to either dissect him or what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is related of the Northern Region in “The Evitable Conflict”?

4. What proposition has been posed to U.S. Robots in the beginning of “Escape!”?

5. What thought does Herbie read of Dr. Calvin’s in “Liar!”?

6. What is foreshadowed through the plot of “Liar!”?

7. Where are Dr. Calvin and Dr. Bogert in the beginning of “Little Lost Robot”? Who greets them?

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

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

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

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