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

2. Who saves Dr. Calvin from being attacked by the robot in the end of “Little Lost Robot”?
(a) Dr. Lanning.
(b) The Brain.
(c) Bogert.
(d) Gerald Black.

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

4. How many days have Donovan and Powell been on the ship when the encounter the interstellar jump in “Escape!”?
(a) 5 days.
(b) 10 days.
(c) 3 weeks.
(d) 1 year.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What Director of Research does the Co-ordinator say he’s spoken to about the Machines in “The Evitable Conflict”?

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

3. What title has Lanning taken in “Escape!”?

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

5. The Eastern Region in “The Evitable Conflict” covers an area of how many square miles?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What is the basis of Dr. Calvin’s fear of the robots and their capabilities in “Little Lost Robot”?

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

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

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

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

8. What does Stephen Byerley tell Dr. Calvin and Dr. Lanning upon their departure from the interview in “Evidence”?

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

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

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