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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 - Reason.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term refers to a deductive inference consisting of two premises and a conclusion, all of which are categorical propositions.?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Irony.
(c) Syllogism.
(d) Cataclysm.

2. Cutie refers to humans such as Powell and Donovan as being what, in “Reason”?
(a) Jovial.
(b) God-like.
(c) Superior.
(d) Makeshift.

3. What is “heading straight dead center across the Earth beam” in “Reason”?
(a) A lost planet.
(b) A black hole.
(c) An electron storm.
(d) A giant asteroid.

4. Where is the officer’s room described as being located in “Reason”?
(a) Solar Station #3.
(b) Solar Station #5.
(c) Solar Station #2.
(d) Solar Station #13.

5. Powell and Donovan found that out after they had been on the Station (in “Runaround”) for less than how long from in “Reason”?
(a) 6 weeks.
(b) 2 months.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 2 days.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many human executives are assigned to each space mining station according to Powell in “Reason”?

2. How much time passes between “Runaround” and “Reason”?

3. According to the narrator in “Reason,” there are strict laws against what on Earth?

4. What title did Susan Calvin hold at U.S. Robots, according to the narrator of the Introduction?

5. At the “Psycho-Math seminar” described by the narrator in the Introduction, who demonstrated the first mobile robot to be equipped with a voice?

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