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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What disturbs Baley about the statistics Olivaw gives him?
(a) The fact that the planet wastes so many resources.
(b) The ratio of robots to humans on Solaria.
(c) The way Olivaw sounds so human.
(d) Nothing.

2. Why won't Olivaw open the top of the car?
(a) The car's top is already open.
(b) He does not know how.
(c) The car has no top.
(d) He cannot do something that may harm a human.

3. Why do people feel comfortable looking any way when using a viewer?
(a) Because it is a very relaxed culture.
(b) Because it is not considered polite to look at the person with whom one is chatting on a viewer.
(c) Because a viewer does not entail smell or feel.
(d) Because the viewer is only for voice; not visual.

4. How does Baley feel about seeing Olivaw?
(a) Angry.
(b) Olivaw is not in Solaria.
(c) Excited.
(d) Indifferent.

5. How many Outer Worlds are there?
(a) Over 50.
(b) 10.
(c) About 10.
(d) 33.

6. What is the approximate population of Solaria?
(a) 20,000.
(b) 200,000.
(c) 20,000,000.
(d) 2,000,000.

7. Who was in the room when the victim is killed?
(a) A robot.
(b) A young man.
(c) No one.
(d) The victim's daughter.

8. What encases the people on Earth?
(a) A dome of nitrogen and oxygen.
(b) A titanium dome.
(c) A fiberglass dome.
(d) A steel dome.

9. What does the robot record?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The back of the head of the killer.
(c) The hand of the killer.
(d) The victime acknowledging his death.

10. What is important to the inhabitants of Solaria?
(a) Their robots.
(b) The cultural mores.
(c) The foods they produce.
(d) Their family ties.

11. Where is Baley traveling at the opening of the story?
(a) Washington.
(b) Denver.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) New York.

12. What surprises Baley about Gladia as he is talking with her?
(a) That she is in her early teens.
(b) That she is naked.
(c) That she is wearing a crown.
(d) That she is blind.

13. What happens after the man is murdered?
(a) The young man kills himself.
(b) The viewer is broken.
(c) The daughter becomes catatonic.
(d) The robot is severely damged.

14. In what state does Gladia find her husband?
(a) Drunken.
(b) In disarray.
(c) Bludgeoned to death.
(d) With another woman.

15. Who is Hannis Gruer?
(a) The President of Solaria.
(b) The most widely-acclaimed robot designer on the planet.
(c) The head of Solarian security.
(d) The King of Solaria.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gruer say Mr. Delmarre may have found?

2. Who is Elijah Baley?

3. What does Baley want to examine?

4. Where is Solaria?

5. Who is Albert Minnim?

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