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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 ask for as far as living accommodations?
(a) To move to the Solarium area.
(b) An apartment ajoining his for Daneel.
(c) A bigger apartment for his family.
(d) A two-bedroom apartment for him and Daneel.

2. What is Dr. Gerrigel not able to imagine a human would do voluntarily?
(a) Keeping an android in the house.
(b) Traveling by train.
(c) Going to Spacetown.
(d) Exiting the city and traveling across country on foot.

3. Why are most robots made in human form?
(a) So robots can infiltrate and spy.
(b) It is an issue of economics and efficiency.
(c) So humans are less afraid of them.
(d) Because robots need to feel a part of a community.

4. Who arrives 20 minutes late to meet with Lije and Daneel?
(a) Francis Clousarr.
(b) Dr. Gerrigel.
(c) Dr. Fostolfe.
(d) Enderby.

5. What is dangerous to a positronic brain?
(a) Radiation.
(b) Water.
(c) Electrical impulses.
(d) Sonic waves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Daneel detect in Clousarr?

2. Who asks Lije about the call he made to Washington D.C. to Dr. Gerrigel, a roboticist specialist?

3. Who is staring at Lije and Daneel at dinner?

4. To what does Lije's mind think back?

5. Of what is Dr. Gerrigel afraid?

Short Essay Questions

1. Do you think Lije and Enderby's relationship has changed and how so?

2. Does Lije seem to be finally thinking more clearly and to what might you attribute that?

3. What is the explanation that Dr. Gerrigel offers for the physical appearance of robots. Does this explanation seem plausible to you?

4. How does Dr. Gerrigel demonstrate the first law of robotics and at the same time prove once and for all R. Daneel's innocence?

5. Compare the relationship of Enderby and Lije with that of Lije and Daneel at the conclusion of the novel.

6. Why can't Daneel use cerebroanalysis to find the murderer?

7. How do you think Lije's prejudice towards robots hinders his murder investigation?

8. Discuss the game Lije played in his earlier days and how it figures in to his sense of competitiveness with R. Daneel?

9. What does Lije propose and how does Dr. Gerrigel refute Lije's theory?

10. How does Lije react to Bentley showing up at the apartment and what does this say about the relationship between Lije and Jesse?

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