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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Baley ask Gladia concerning the murder?
(a) If she committed it.
(b) If she saw the killer.
(c) If she knows the killer.
(d) If she is protecting the killer.

4. Who is Elijah Baley?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A pilot.
(c) A detective.
(d) A merchant.

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

6. Who is R. Daneel Olivaw?
(a) His boss's robot butler.
(b) The robot that serves Baley dinner on the ship.
(c) His son's robot science teacher.
(d) A robot with whom Baley has partnered in the past.

7. Why does Baley think Gladia appears to Baley in the state she does?
(a) To influence Baley's judgement.
(b) Because she is so distraught.
(c) To make Baley admire her.
(d) To seduce him.

8. Of what is Gladia certain?
(a) There was no one else in the President's mansion when she finds her husband.
(b) Her husband is greatly loved.
(c) Her husband is a good man.
(d) Her husband would not have allowed anyone to "see" him.

9. What does Gruer say about the Solarian's knowledge of humans?
(a) They have an incredible about of knowledge about humans.
(b) They do not understand them.
(c) They think humans are evolving to a new form.
(d) They are fascinated by humans.

10. What do the people on the Outer Worlds believe about Earthmen?
(a) That they are culturally superior.
(b) That they are violent.
(c) That they are to be revered as the origin of the human species.
(d) That they are nasty and covered in germs.

11. How many robots work on Solaria?
(a) 200,000,000.
(b) None.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 2,000.

12. What upsets Baley about the way he must question people on Solaria?
(a) That he cannot see them in person.
(b) That he can only speak to them one on one in person.
(c) That the tube distorts people's images.
(d) That they only speak through mediators.

13. What is Baley unable to do before he leaves Earth?
(a) Check out a gun.
(b) Say goodbye to his family.
(c) Pack his own clothing.
(d) Get a clean uniform.

14. What does it seem that the inhabitants on Aurora intend regarding Olivaw?
(a) That the Solarians are provoked into hostile action by Olivaw's presence.
(b) That the Solarians think he is human.
(c) They do not seem to have any particular plan.
(d) That the Solarians choose to open their planet to robots.

15. Who is Albert Minnim?
(a) A robot.
(b) Another detective.
(c) The President.
(d) The Undersecretary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gladia ask about Baley and Olivaw?

2. How does Baley feel about going?

3. What does Gladia do when she finds her husband?

4. What does Olivaw tell Bailey?

5. What happens to Gruer as he is talking with Baley?

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