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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 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 masterminds the murder of humaniform robots.
(d) That he secretly hates all humaniform robots.

2. What does Baley ask Gladia to allow him to do?
(a) Take photographs of Jander's body.
(b) Examine Jander's body.
(c) Take samples from Jander's body.
(d) Move Jander's body.

3. Where does Vasilia work?
(a) Robotics Institute of Aurora (RIA).
(b) Auroran Space Agency.
(c) Humaniform Development Agency.
(d) Globalist Conference headquarters.

4. What is it that Baley cannot get Daneel to do?
(a) To explain how he knows when someone is lying.
(b) To reveal who killed Jander.
(c) To go against Fastolfe.
(d) To declare some human a liar.

5. What is Baley's connection to Gladia?
(a) They are distant cousins.
(b) He investigated her husband's murder.
(c) He saved her from an assassin.
(d) They were once married.

Short Answer Questions

1. What frustration does Baley encounter as they near Aurora?

2. What line of Baley's questioning does Gladia resent?

3. What is a major difference between Aurorans and Earth people?

4. What does Giskard have that assures Daneel he has not been substituted?

5. Like the Personal, what irritates Baley about Fastolfe's home?

Short Essay Questions

1. Define the line of questioning for which Baley gets no information from the robots who are guarding him.

2. Identify the difference between Outside on Aurora and Outside on Earth.

3. What is the connection between Gladia and the house where Jander died?

4. What indicates how life-like the humaniform robots are?

5. How is Baley treated on the Auroran spaceship?

6. How does the reunion of Baley and Fastolfe add to the suspense of the story?

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

8. What are the reasons Auroran Globalists reject Earth people as having any part in Galactic Expansion?

9. How, apparently, was the humaniform robot, R. Jander Panell, killed?

10. Explain why Gladia rejects Baley's theory that Gremionis destroyed Jander out of jealousy.

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