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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Dr. Pirenne's formal position on Terminus?
(a) Chancellor.
(b) Viceroy of the university.
(c) Chairman of the Board of Trustees.
(d) Mayor.

2. What is Hari Seldon in when he appears to the board?
(a) Wheelchair.
(b) Bathtub.
(c) Car.
(d) Expensive suit.

3. The lawyer tells Gaal that there is a _________ probability that the trial will end well for him.
(a) 77.2 percent.
(b) 57.6 percent.
(c) 12.9 percent.
(d) 99.1 percent.

4. What is the name of the envoy from Anacreon?
(a) Anselm Rodric.
(b) Roderis Hanslem.
(c) Haut Anselmo.
(d) Haup Rodenis.

5. How long has Seldon truly been preparing to go to Terminus?
(a) One year.
(b) Six months.
(c) Ten years.
(d) Two years.

6. What doesn't Pirenne want a big issue to be made about during the anniversary?
(a) The Vault.
(b) War.
(c) The Empire.
(d) The Encyclopedia.

7. What does Hari Seldon's tomb look like?
(a) Marble box.
(b) Laboratory.
(c) Park.
(d) Glass cubicle.

8. The period of time after the Empire could have lasted how many years, according to Seldon?
(a) 30,000.
(b) 1000.
(c) 3000.
(d) 100,000.

9. Hari Seldon tells the board that the Encyclopedia is a what?
(a) Failure.
(b) Disaster.
(c) Success.
(d) Fraud.

10. What does Seldon tell Gaal is the probability that he will be executed?
(a) 5.7 percent.
(b) 2.1 percent.
(c) 10.2 percent.
(d) 1.7 percent.

11. How many more years at the beginning of the Encyclopedists until the first volume of the Encyclopedia Foundation Number One will be published?
(a) Two,
(b) Ten.
(c) Five.
(d) One.

12. How many members are there on the Foundation's Board of Trustees?
(a) Four.
(b) Six.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

13. The next period of time will be known as what?
(a) Exploration.
(b) Barbarism.
(c) Darkness.
(d) Enlightenment.

14. What does Lord Dorwin promise the Foundation?
(a) Money.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Peace.
(d) Freedom.

15. How many members of the commission question Seldon and Gaal during the trial?
(a) Ten.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Seven.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anacreon give to Terminus?

2. What is the solution to the first crisis on Terminus?

3. What does Lord Dorwin use often on his visit to Terminus?

4. His lawyer tells Gaal that the Emperor of today is not the Emperor of the _______ dynasty.

5. To change the course of destruction on Trantor, there must be an equal amount of ________ from an opposing force.

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