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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gladia do when she finds her husband?
(a) Slaps him.
(b) Shoots him.
(c) Screams at him.
(d) Faints.

2. What is the approximate population of Solaria?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 20,000.
(c) 20,000,000.
(d) 2,000,000.

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

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

5. Why is it unusual for a person from Earth to travel to Solaria?
(a) It is at war with Earth.
(b) It takes 20 Earth years to travel one way to Solaria.
(c) It has an atmostphere based upon nitrogen.
(d) None has ever been there.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gladia respond to Baley's question?

2. Of what is Gladia certain?

3. Why does Olivaw arrange for a tube from the space ship to their car?

4. About what does Baley think on the plane?

5. What does Baley ask Gladia concerning the murder?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Baley's response to his orders?

2. What happens to Gruer while Elijah is communicating with him and what does Elijah do?

3. How do people on the Outer Worlds view Earthmen?

4. What does Daneel tell Elijah about Solaria, and what is Elijah's response?

5. Why do the authorities believe Gladia did not kill her husband and what does Gladia say when Elijah asks her if she did it?

6. What does Albert reply to Baley's reluctance to accept the assignment?

7. What does Gladia tell Elijah about her relationship with her husband?

8. What is Elijah's attitude towards robots and what is the exception?

9. Where is Elijah Baley at the opening of the novel and about what is he thinking?

10. Explain the difference between "viewing" and "seeing" on Solaria.

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