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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Hari's adopted son?
(a) Raych Seldon.
(b) Wanda Seldon.
(c) Dors Venábili.
(d) Gleb Andorin.

2. Who comes to Hari to attempt to beg his way out of his appointment in Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 19?
(a) Emperor Cleon I.
(b) Gennaro Mummery.
(c) Wanda Seldon.
(d) Mandell Gruber.

3. What does Eto Demerzel tell Hari to call him in Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 11?
(a) Daneel.
(b) Binbane.
(c) Lingon.
(d) Roteen.

4. At what age did Hari Seldon travel to the center of the Galactic Universe to deliver a theoretical paper on psychohistory?
(a) 37.
(b) 24.
(c) 17.
(d) 32.

5. What province of the Milky Way Galaxy, having few stars and no political importance, is located some 10,000 parsecs from Trantor?
(a) Mycogen.
(b) Anacreon.
(c) Dahl.
(d) Nishaya.

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

7. The planet Trantor is a complex of how many semi-autonomous sectors at the center of the Galaxy?
(a) 370.
(b) 800.
(c) 55.
(d) 200.

8. What refers to the act of deliberately killing someone, especially a public figure, usually for hire or for political reasons?
(a) Assassination.
(b) Kidnapping.
(c) Sequestration.
(d) Alienation.

9. Who swiftly disarms a would-be assassin and gets him to name his cohorts, by threat of torture in Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 2?
(a) Kaspal Kaspalov.
(b) Mandell Gruber.
(c) Hari Seldon.
(d) Dors Venábili.

10. In Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 22, who practices laughing on cue for Hari and Dors before performing on camera?
(a) Eto Demerzel.
(b) Gleb Andorin.
(c) Jo-Jo Joranum.
(d) Emperor Agis XIV.

11. Who is a native of the Dahl Sector of Trantor and a brilliant self-taught mathematician languishing as a heatsink worker when Hari Seldon encounters him in Prelude to Foundation?
(a) Hari Seldon.
(b) Jo-Jo Joranum's.
(c) Eto Demerzel.
(d) Yugo Amaryl.

12. Part 2 jumps forward to ten years into Hari's tenure in what office?
(a) First Minister.
(b) Second Minister.
(c) Fourth Minister.
(d) Sixth Minister.

13. Whose policy consists of fostering and exploiting breakdowns in the infrastructure around Trantor to foment popular discontent in Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 5?
(a) Gennaro Mummery.
(b) Yugo Amaryl.
(c) Emperor Cleon I.
(d) Namarti's.

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

15. What is the name of the capital of the First Galactic Empire, which has the distinction of being entirely domed, except for the grounds of the Imperial Palace?
(a) Trantor.
(b) Coyrem.
(c) Yumeng.
(d) Hermex.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a form of government in which a single entity rules with absolute power?

2. When Raych is brought in during Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 17, he instantly recognizes who, but gives no sign?

3. By what name does Raych refer to himself in Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 12?

4. In Part 2, Cleon I, Chapter 9, Cleon is unaware of the requirement that gardeners be recruited from where?

5. In Part 1, Eto Demerzel, Chapter 16, Raych sits in a cell listening to whose rote lecture about civil order?

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