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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, Amadiro (Parts 52-54).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What amenity is used to test Baley's ability to function on Aurora?
(a) The Navigator.
(b) The Translator.
(c) The Personal.
(d) The Articulator.

2. What is the the astrosimulator?
(a) A kind of pleasure device.
(b) A holographic device allowing Baley to view space.
(c) A kind of robot that pilots spaceships.
(d) A means of escaping a locked spaceship cabin.

3. In finding out about Vasilia, what is shocking to Baley?
(a) Aurora has no concept of incest.
(b) Vasilia attempts to seduce Baley.
(c) Vasilia claims her father is a fraud.
(d) Aurora disallows single parent families.

4. What are Auroran robots able to handle better than Earth robots?
(a) Piloting spacecraft.
(b) Personal service to humans.
(c) Complex situations.
(d) The Three Laws of Robotics.

5. Besides being ordered not to talk about Vasilia's separation from her father, what else can Giskard not discuss?
(a) What he knows about the Globalists.
(b) The minor changes Vasilia made on him.
(c) The way Vasilia eavesdrops on Fastole.
(d) The other men in Vasilia's life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do some people suspect Fastolfe of killing Jander?

2. Why are Daneel and Giskard worried about Baley using the public Personal?

3. In isolation, who is Baley's only contact?

4. What social convention of the Aurorans takes some getting used to for Baley?

5. What irksome observation of Vasilia bothers Baley at their meeting?

(see the answer key)

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