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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. Fastole accused of what by refusing to create more humaniform robots?
(a) Blackmail.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Intellectual greed.
(d) Inability.

2. What is Baley attempting to determine in his investigation?
(a) Means, opportunity, and motive.
(b) Ways, timing, and concentration.
(c) Cause and effect.
(d) What, when, and where.

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

4. What was the purpose of Fastolfe's throwing the spicer at Baley?
(a) A demonstration to show Baley how he is protected.
(b) To see how Baley would react.
(c) To show Baley how he must be on guard.
(d) To see if Daneel and Gaskard were programmed right.

5. What does Fastolfe suggest will doom humanity in the future?
(a) Allowing robots to take over.
(b) Not facing challenges.
(c) Becoming complacent.
(d) Creating more humaniform robots.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the only surviving humaniform robot?

2. Besides being ordered not to talk about Vasilia's separation from her father, what else can Giskard not discuss?

3. Where does Vasilia work?

4. What does Baley suspect Fastolfe may have ordered Daneel to do?

5. What is the Globalist objection to galactic expansion by Earth people?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Baley treated on the Auroran spaceship?

2. Explain the Personal.

3. Define what Baley thinks will be difficult for him back on Earth.

4. When Baley panics while using the device to view space from his cabin, what is unusual about the way he is rescued?

5. Why does Daneel think it necessary to stay near Baley other than to guard him?

6. What is the odd thing about the Aurorans dislike for Earth?

7. How does what appears to be an important piece of information escape Baley before he falls into a troubled sleep at Fastolfe's house?

8. What is the nature of the case Baley is called upon to solve on planet Aurora?

9. Describe the political conflict going on on Aurora that possibly is the reason for trying to implicate Fastolfe in Jander's murder.

10. Even though Jander was in someone else's possession at the time of his death, why is Fastolfe a prime suspect?

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