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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What culture does Anselmo say Solaria resembles?
(a) Aurora.
(b) Earth.
(c) None.
(d) The Spacer's world.

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

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

5. Where is Baley at the opening to chapter 15?
(a) In the Spaceport.
(b) Talking to Klorissa at a restaurant.
(c) Arriving at Gladia Delmarre's home.
(d) Discussing the case with Daneel at their motel room.

6. What does Daneel say about Aurora's attitude towards Solaria?
(a) They feel inferior to Solaria.
(b) They have been worried about Solaria.
(c) They feel superior to Solaria.
(d) They do not understand the Solarians.

7. How long has it been since Gladia has talked with Leebig?
(a) The same day that Baley asks Gladia.
(b) Two days.
(c) A few months before her husband's death.
(d) Several years.

8. What does it prove if you can go your whole life on Solaria without encountering another human?
(a) That you are crazy.
(b) That you are very spiritually advanced.
(c) That you have a very high status.
(d) That you are wise.

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

10. What does Anselmo say is unbearable?
(a) The thought of breathing the same air as Baley.
(b) The fact that a murder has been committed on Solaria.
(c) That Baley has so much to learn and Anselmo does not have the time to teach him.
(d) The open sky.

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

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

13. Who does Leebig say constantly fought?
(a) Delmarre and Leebig.
(b) Gladia and Leebig.
(c) Dr. Delmarre and Gladia.
(d) Gladia and LaFortier.

14. What was Dr. Delmarre working on in order to eliminate marriage?
(a) A way to have women create through parthenogenesis.
(b) A civil agreement.
(c) Nothing; he strongly believed in marriage.
(d) In vitro fertilization.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With what does Anselmo Quemot have difficulty when Baley is there?

3. Of what does Baley accuse Attlebish?

4. What happens between Gladia and Leebig?

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

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