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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what does Fastolfe dream?
(a) Total integration of the Spacers and Earthmen.
(b) A cross-breeding between robots and men.
(c) A way to immortality.
(d) An egalitarian universe.

2. What is Lije's response to Jesse's fears?
(a) That she is still young enough for another child.
(b) That she is being childish.
(c) That Jesse's job is safe as long as Lije helps Enderby.
(d) That Lije is safer as a cop than in many other professions.

3. How does Lije feel as he breathes real country air?
(a) Lightheaded.
(b) He coughs.
(c) Delighted.
(d) Nauseous.

4. Who is Jesse?
(a) Lije's wife.
(b) Lije's best friend.
(c) Lije's boss's daughter.
(d) Lije's ex-girlfriend.

5. Who does Lije think may be responsible for the murder?
(a) A lover of the victim.
(b) A psychotic individual.
(c) An accidental, drive-by shooting.
(d) A disgruntled employee.

6. What does Lije wonder about his Spacetown robot partner?
(a) If he can get married and have sex.
(b) If he talks like a human.
(c) If he eats real food.
(d) How he will adapt to life in the city.

7. What is Julius Enderby's occupation?
(a) Investigator.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Detective.
(d) Commissioner.

8. Where is the family usually required to eat?
(a) The restaurant down the street.
(b) Anywhere they want.
(c) With the next-door neighbors.
(d) The community kitchen.

9. What did Roj Nemennuh Sarton think would produce a world like the one the Spacers wanted?
(a) Everyone going vegetarian.
(b) The integration of robots with human society.
(c) Creating androids that actually could reproduce.
(d) Terraforming.

10. What is the average life expectancy for a male on Fastolfe's home planet, Aurora?
(a) 350 years.
(b) 200 years.
(c) 180 years.
(d) 500 years.

11. In what field did Roj Nemennuh Sarton specialize?
(a) Biology.
(b) Adminstration.
(c) Robotics.
(d) Pathology.

12. Why does Lije prefer Enderby to do so rather than himself?
(a) The Spacers trust Enderby.
(b) Enderby has connections with the government.
(c) Enderby was once a Spacer.
(d) Lije hates paperwork.

13. How will Enderby be witness to the investigation?
(a) Via trimensional personification.
(b) By Lije recording it on video.
(c) He will not know anything until Lije and Daneel are finished.
(d) By regular phone calls.

14. Under what circumstances will the Spacers allow an investigation and will not send a report to their Outerworlds?
(a) If Lije takes on a Spacer robot as his partner.
(b) If the family of the dead spacer is spared of knowing it was suicide.
(c) If the company who manufactured the faulty relay is punished.
(d) If there are two Spacers involved in the investigation.

15. Who fears human disease and is unable to deal with the huge crowds in Cities?
(a) Androids.
(b) Spacers.
(c) Residents of Mars.
(d) Robots.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the government call things such as riots?

2. What would be an immense challenge?

3. Where do Lije and his two sisters live after his father dies?

4. What is Elijah Baley's occupation?

5. About what are the women at the shoe store angry?

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