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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Cleon I, Chapters 1-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hari Seldon is a mathematician from what obscure outer world?
(a) Guroka.
(b) Bonbert.
(c) Helicon.
(d) Temalcus.

2. What is a fictional science in the Foundation universe which combines history, sociology, and mathematical statistics to make general predictions about the future behavior of very large groups of people?
(a) Histomathematics.
(b) Sociogeometry.
(c) Psychohistory.
(d) Sociomathematics.

3. In what year did Cleon I succeed to the Imperial Throne?
(a) 12,010 GE.
(b) 15,128 GE.
(c) 9,872 GE.
(d) 19, 982 GE.

4. What is the first of the Three Laws of Robotics?
(a) A robot must protect its own existence, unless this conflicts with the First or Second Law.
(b) Laws which humans make are too difficult to obey.
(c) A robot may not injure a human or allow one to come to harm.
(d) A robot must obey human orders unless such orders would conflict with the First Law.

5. Dors Venabili, in Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 3, is angry that her husband has tangled with whose right-hand man?
(a) Eto Demerzel.
(b) Dr. Bor Alurin.
(c) Jo-Jo Joranum's.
(d) Mandell Gruber.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 19, Cleon goes to whose office to ask about the anti-robot flier?

2. When was Cleon I born in the novel?

3. Whose policy consists of fostering and exploiting breakdowns in the infrastructure around Trantor to foment popular discontent in Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 5?

4. Who is Hari's adopted son?

5. What economically depressed sector of the planet Trantor produces energy in heatsinks dug deep underground near the superheated planetary magma?

(see the answer key)

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