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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 does Lije want to do as the crowd grows?
(a) Shoot his gun into the air to quiet them.
(b) Call a riot squad.
(c) Spray tear gas on them.
(d) Push the fire alarm.

2. What is Jesse's impression of Daneel's demeanor?
(a) His demeanor is intimidating.
(b) His demeanor is pleasing.
(c) His demeanor is flat.
(d) His demeanor is cold.

3. What does Lije notice about R. Daneel?
(a) He is anatomically correct.
(b) He is not anatomically correct.
(c) He is a different color where his clothes hide him.
(d) He has skin that is impervious to cuts.

4. Under what circumstances will the Spacers allow an investigation and will not send a report to their Outerworlds?
(a) If Lije takes on a Spacer robot as his partner.
(b) If the family of the dead spacer is spared of knowing it was suicide.
(c) If there are two Spacers involved in the investigation.
(d) If the company who manufactured the faulty relay is punished.

5. Who does Daneel think may be responsible?
(a) A terrorist group.
(b) He has no idea.
(c) An anti-human faction.
(d) A rival planetary councilor.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Earth and its contemporary cities dependent?

2. Why does Enderby think Dr. Sarton is dead?

3. Why does Jesse ask Lije this?

4. How are the Spacers vulnerable?

5. What does Lije regret not seeing?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does it seem that Lije reacts to the idea of having a robot for a partner?

2. Why is Lije upset by R. Daneel's actions to control the crowd?

3. What is disconcerting about Jesse's announcement after she comes home from a night out?

4. What is the problem that Lije and R. Daneel encounter at the shoe store, and do you think the women are justified?

5. Who is the murder victim and what do the Spacers think about his murder?

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

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

8. What do you think could be an advantage if a clerk who is serving you were a robot?

9. Why did Dr. Sarton engage in robotic research?

10. Why does Lije request Enderby to be a witness to a conversation Lije is about to have with Dr. Fastolfe and R. Daneel?

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