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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what does Anselmo Quemot have difficulty when Baley is there?
(a) Telling Baley about Solaria.
(b) Being in the same room as Baley.
(c) Giving Baley a straight answer.
(d) Showing Baley his home.

2. What is a possible loophole to the first law of robotics?
(a) The robot can cause harm if it is debased.
(b) There are no loopholes.
(c) The robot can cause harm if its maker orders it to do so.
(d) A robot can cause harm if it does not know it is doing so.

3. What happens between Gladia and Leebig?
(a) They have an ongoing argument about having children.
(b) They have a falling out.
(c) They conspire together to change the immigration laws of Solaria.
(d) They have an affair.

4. What does Baley hear just before he is unaware of anything?
(a) The dog growling.
(b) Gladia's son screaming.
(c) Gladia screaming.
(d) Gladia's daughter screaming.

5. What shocks Klorissa?
(a) That Delmarre left the lab to her.
(b) That the fetuses are all confiscated.
(c) That there is a murder investigation over Dr. Delmarre's death.
(d) That Dr. Delmarre is dead.

6. What does Gladia say she would have remembered if she had done?
(a) Killed her husband.
(b) Taken her son to the park on the day her husband is killed.
(c) Written a note to her husband.
(d) Seen her lawyer the day before her husband is killed.

7. What does Baley tell Klorissa about his suspect list?
(a) That it is inaccurate.
(b) That it is complete.
(c) That it is incomplete.
(d) That she is on it.

8. Why does Leebig say he recently destroyed a robot?
(a) Because it tried to poison him.
(b) Because it was already destroyed.
(c) Because its parts were obsolete.
(d) Because it tried to take over control of his other robots.

9. How does Gladia treat Baley when he goes to her home?
(a) She allows him to be closer to her than did Klorissa.
(b) She is indifferent.
(c) She is hostile.
(d) She is warm and friendly.

10. Of what does Baley accuse Attlebish?
(a) Murder.
(b) Incompetence.
(c) Being afraid of being next after Gruer.
(d) Accessory after the fact.

11. Why will Daneel not allow Baley to leave the estate?
(a) He thinks Attlebish will try to kill them.
(b) He thinks Gladia will refuse to see them.
(c) He is charged with Baley's safety.
(d) He thinks they can solve the murder through viewing.

12. What does Gladia say about Jothan Leebig?
(a) That he was her husband's brother-in-law.
(b) That he has been responsible for closing off Solaria to visitors.
(c) That she and he are friends.
(d) That she has never heard his name before.

13. From what does Solaria differ?
(a) Mars.
(b) Earth.
(c) The moon's culture.
(d) The other Outer Worlds.

14. What does Baley believe about the first law of robotics?
(a) That it is inviolate.
(b) That it helps maintain precedence.
(c) That it is a big mistake.
(d) It has been deliberately misquoted in order to hide the fact that robots can commit murder.

15. What does Leebig think can cause distrust of robots?
(a) Having a robot think independently .
(b) Believing as Baley does about the first law.
(c) Seeing a robot apprehend a human criminal.
(d) Seeing a robot discipline a child.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the arrow like?

2. What type of models has Leebig been working on?

3. How long after conception are the fetuses brought to the farm?

4. How does Baley shock Gladia Delmarre?

5. What does it prove if you can go your whole life on Solaria without encountering another human?

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