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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18, Again The Chairman (Parts 75-79).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Amadiro describe the founders of Aurora?
(a) Rugged pioneers who lived for adventure.
(b) True individualists who escaped overcrowded Earth.
(c) Religious purists who escaped planet Earth.
(d) True utopians who were banished from Earth.

2. What is the Globalist objection to galactic expansion by Earth people?
(a) They are behind the times.
(b) They are agressive and warlike.
(c) They are wasteful and inefficient.
(d) They are inferior intellectually.

3. What must Baley prove about Fastolfe according to Demacheck?
(a) That he is innocent of murdering a humaniform robot.
(b) That he secretly hates all humaniform robots.
(c) That he is the one who murdered the humaniform robot.
(d) That he masterminds the murder of humaniform robots.

4. How does Asimov get across the poor conditions back on Earth?
(a) Through Baley's descriptions of his home planet.
(b) Through having Baley explain Earth to Giskard.
(c) Through conversations between Baley and his family back home.
(d) Through Baley's thinking how he will miss Auroran luxuries.

5. What makes Earth humans likely candidates for future colonization according to Fastolfe?
(a) A sense of adventure.
(b) Their expendability.
(c) A history of exploration.
(d) A crowded world and short life span.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Baley as he observes the ship's descent to Aurora?

2. Why does Baley suddenly realize Amadiro stalled him in his office?

3. What is the name given to the Globalists' plan for space colonization?

4. Although there is no perceived threat, what does Daneel think best?

5. What does Vasilia do when Baley asks if the Jander scandal is being used to manipulate Fastolfe?

(see the answer key)

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