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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the viewer like that Gruer uses to speak with Baley?
(a) Obsolete.
(b) They do not use a viewer.
(c) Real fuzzy.
(d) State of the art.

2. What does Baley want to examine?
(a) The viewer which was in the room where the victim is murdered.
(b) The young man who was in the room where the victim is murdered.
(c) The robot in the room where the victim is murdered.
(d) The teleporter which was in the room where the victim is murdered.

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

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

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

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

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

9. How long does it take the robots to find Gladia after she faints?
(a) They find her immediately.
(b) 1/2 hour.
(c) 28 hours.
(d) 2 hours.

10. Who takes care of Gladia after she finds her husband?
(a) Her son.
(b) Her maid.
(c) Robots.
(d) Her daughter.

11. What are in the outside areas of Earth?
(a) A nuclear wasteland.
(b) Factories.
(c) Farms and mines.
(d) Nothing.

12. What happens to Gruer as he is talking with Baley?
(a) He is poisoned.
(b) He falls asleep.
(c) He has a heart attack.
(d) He dies.

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

14. For how long has Gladia and her husband been married?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 25 years.
(c) 38 years.
(d) 1 year.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Baley realize about the Solaria's inhabitant's attitude towards Olivaw?

2. What does Baley say about "seeing" Olivaw?

3. Who is Albert Minnim?

4. What weapon is found in the house where the human is murdered?

5. What causes Gladia to go to her husband?

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