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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gladia do when Baley responses to her statement about Gruer?
(a) She says she will sue Baley for defamation of character.
(b) She cries.
(c) She terminates communication.
(d) She confesses.

2. Why is Baley worn out?
(a) No reason.
(b) From talking to uncooperative people all day.
(c) From being in the open all day.
(d) He did his weekly exercises.

3. What does Baley tell Gladia?
(a) He needs to see her in person.
(b) He wants to see Dr. Delmarre's study.
(c) He believes he has found Dr. Delmarre's killer.
(d) He thinks Klorissa killed Dr. Delmarre.

4. According to Leebig, how could one get a robot to discipline a child?
(a) By enhancing the 3rd law of robotics.
(b) By weakening the first law programed into the robot.
(c) By enhancing the 2nd law of robotics.
(d) By erasing the first law programed into the robot.

5. 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.

6. At what does Klorissa laugh?
(a) The thought that robots could feel.
(b) The idea that she would kill Dr. Delmarre.
(c) A joke Baley tells.
(d) The idea of people living face to face.

7. What does Gruer say in response to Gladia's statement about Gruer?
(a) That there is not way to substantiate if she knew Gruer before the murder.
(b) That she could easily find out where Gruer lives.
(c) That siblings have killed each other before.
(d) That she could have arranged the poisoning without being there.

8. What happens when Baley is at the fetus institute?
(a) He examines Dr. Delmarre's desk.
(b) He is nearly shot by a child with an arrow.
(c) He faints again.
(d) He sees how they cull the damaged fetuses.

9. What do the people of Solaria find disgusting and unnatural?
(a) Work.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Traveling.
(d) Gardening.

10. How long after conception are the fetuses brought to the farm?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) 2 months.
(c) One month.
(d) 4 months.

11. How does Leebig react to a call from Baley?
(a) He answers the call reluctantly.
(b) He is hostile.
(c) He is very interested in talking to Baley about the murder case.
(d) He refuses to answer the call.

12. What can't the robot remember?
(a) Who gave him the babysitting job.
(b) Why he is not programmed correctly.
(c) Who he is registered to.
(d) Where he got his information about Earth humans.

13. What type of models has Leebig been working on?
(a) High fashion.
(b) Molecular.
(c) Robots with no movable parts.
(d) Robots with removable arms.

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

15. How does Gladia dismiss the possibility that she could have harmed Gruer?
(a) That she has never hear of Gruer before the first murder.
(b) That she has no idea where Gruer lives.
(c) That she has never been to his estate.
(d) That she and Gruer are siblings and she loves him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Klorissa say the people of Solaria hate?

2. How long has it been since Gladia has talked with Leebig?

3. What does Baley believe about the first law of robotics?

4. For what had Delmarre volunteered?

5. On what project was Dr. Delmarre working concerning robots?

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