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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 Enderby about to tell Baley?
(a) That Baley is being laid off.
(b) That Baley is being transferred.
(c) About the circumstances surrounding what happened to him three days earlier.
(d) That Enderby is resigning his position.

2. Who warms up to Daneel quickly?
(a) The police at the station.
(b) Bentley.
(c) Jesse.
(d) The neighbor.

3. What is Jesse's full name?
(a) Jesse.
(b) Jessica.
(c) Jezebel.
(d) Jessiman.

4. In what does Lije try to intervene?
(a) The shooting death of a colleague.
(b) His wife's bad habits.
(c) The commotion he and the robot enounter.
(d) The vilification of robots.

5. Why does Jesse ask Lije this?
(a) Because Bentley would learn about the Spacers firsthand.
(b) To give Bentley a younger sibling.
(c) Because Daneel is a robot.
(d) Because Lije has already been shot twice.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what is Lije content?

2. What does Lije believe Enderby will think about Lije's theory of the murder?

3. How do they determine if Lije is healthy?

4. What happened to Enderby three days earlier?

5. What do the robot and Lije encounter on the way to Lije's home?

Short Essay Questions

1. How and why is light regulated in the City's artificial environment?

2. What possible theme is already apparent in this first chapter?

3. What are a couple differences between the City where Lije lives and Spacetown?

4. Why do the Spacers want Earthmen to accept robots among them?

5. What does Lije state about the murder of Dr. Sarton and how is his analysis received by Dr. Fastolfe and Enderby?

6. What is it about Fastolfe's age that most Earthmen would find extraordinary and do you think you would enjoy his lifespan?

7. What is Lije subjected to again as he enters Spacetown?

8. How did Lije meet Jesse, his wife, and what about their names may foreshadow something further in the story?

9. What is established at the opening of the novel?

10. What shocks Lije about his new partner, R. Daneel, and why do you think this bothers Lije so much?

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