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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what does Olivaw believe Earth inhabitants have problems?
(a) Planets that are hostile to robots.
(b) Space travel.
(c) He has no opinion about earth dwellers.
(d) Being out in the open.

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

3. What does Daneel think Gladia is trying to do?
(a) Welcome them.
(b) Manipulate them.
(c) Make them leave the planet.
(d) Make them look foolish.

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

5. 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) Nothing.
(d) The way Olivaw sounds so human.

6. Who do the people on Solaria visit with each other?
(a) In person only.
(b) Through holographs.
(c) Through computer links.
(d) Through the tube.

7. What does Baley hate to see?
(a) That is partner is a woman.
(b) A robot doing a human's job.
(c) The food on the ship.
(d) The sparse accomdations on the ship.

8. To what does Baley say he must become accustomed?
(a) Seeing so many robots.
(b) Being out in the open.
(c) Not seeing his wife.
(d) Working with Olivaw again.

9. About what does Baley think on the plane?
(a) How little there is between him and the outside world.
(b) The murder he investigated with a robot in Spacer world.
(c) His mistress in Washington.
(d) The death of his boss.

10. What does Albert tell Baley he must do when he goes off world?
(a) Get all his innoculations.
(b) Take his own rations.
(c) Take note of everything.
(d) Take his camera.

11. What does Baley say about "seeing" Olivaw?
(a) That he and Olivaw are in the same room.
(b) That they never "see" each other.
(c) He refuses to divulve that information.
(d) That he does not understand the concept of seeing.

12. Where is the victim's body?
(a) They do not know what happened to the body.
(b) It is in the morgue.
(c) It was cremated.
(d) It is still at the victim's home.

13. What part of the robot that Baley wants to examine is damaged?
(a) The cortex.
(b) The digits.
(c) The circuits that run the movement mechanisms.
(d) The positronic brain.

14. What causes Gladia to go to her husband?
(a) He misses a scheduled "seeing."
(b) He asks her to visit him.
(c) She hears a scream.
(d) He rings for her.

15. What is said about the Outer Worlds' military power?
(a) It is non-existent.
(b) It is far superior to Earth's.
(c) It is tiny compared to earth.
(d) It is stronger than the earth in air power, but less so in infantry power.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why won't Olivaw open the top of the car?

2. What happens after the man is murdered?

3. Why is Earth in trouble?

4. Who is Elijah Baley?

5. What do the people on the Outer Worlds believe about Earthmen?

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