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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Daneel foresee will be a problem for Baley?
(a) His Earth clothes.
(b) His inability to think logically.
(c) His reputation for drama.
(d) His ignorance of common social customs.

2. Why does Fastolfe refuse to sleep with Vasilia?
(a) She is his daughter.
(b) She is under age.
(c) She is married.
(d) She is not his type.

3. What is symbolic as Baley returns to see Gladia?
(a) Black birds gather at her house.
(b) A storm is approaching.
(c) A tile falls from her roof.
(d) The house next to hers catches fire.

4. What bluff does Baley attempt to pull on Fastolfe?
(a) That Daneel told him why Jander was killed.
(b) That he knows who killed Jander.
(c) That he may have found the key to an answer.
(d) That Gladia confessed to killing Jander.

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

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

7. What was the surprising relationship between Gladia and Jander?
(a) He had been her husband.
(b) He had found lovers for her.
(c) He was her brother.
(d) He taught her about love.

8. What does Baley suspect Fastolfe may have ordered Daneel to do?
(a) To report everything Baley says.
(b) To lie about lying.
(c) To deny Jander was given to Gladia.
(d) To ignore questions about Jander.

9. Like the Personal, what irritates Baley about Fastolfe's home?
(a) The illusory effects.
(b) The unusual lighting.
(c) The casualness.
(d) The strangeness.

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

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

12. Why does Gladia say she moved to Aurora?
(a) Hoping to meet men like Baley.
(b) Hoping to forget her loss on Solaria.
(c) Hoping to see Baley again.
(d) Hoping to find a better job.

13. What is Fastolfe's explanation for Jander's demise?
(a) An extremely rare spontaneous event.
(b) A fanatic humaniform hater.
(c) A rare electrical surge.
(d) A malfunction of Jander's circuitry.

14. What is a theory Baley forms as to why Jander froze up?
(a) He possibly sensed Gladia's guilt about their relationship.
(b) He sensed Fastolfe had feelings for Gladia.
(c) He was ordered to lie to Fastolfe.
(d) He had a secret relationship with Vasilia.

15. What does Dr. Susan Calvin say violates the First Law of robotics?
(a) Bad programming.
(b) Short circuits.
(c) White lies.
(d) Telepathy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Fastolfe suddenly pick up a spicer that dispenses condiments?

2. What does Baley fail to get when questioning robots about Jander?

3. From where are the origins of all life on Aurora?

4. What strange thing does Baley do upon reuniting with Daneel?

5. Fastolfe is evasive about what as Baley questions him?

(see the answer keys)

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