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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Daneel think Gladia is trying to do?
(a) Welcome them.
(b) Make them leave the planet.
(c) Make them look foolish.
(d) Manipulate them.

2. Why does Olivaw arrange for a tube from the space ship to their car?
(a) So Baley does not have to be out in the open.
(b) So as to get off the ship faster.
(c) So they can have lunch on the tube.
(d) So Olivaw is not spotted by the port authorities.

3. What are in the outside areas of Earth?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A nuclear wasteland.
(c) Farms and mines.
(d) Factories.

4. Where is the victim's body?
(a) It is in the morgue.
(b) It is still at the victim's home.
(c) It was cremated.
(d) They do not know what happened to the body.

5. Who was in the room when the victim is killed?
(a) A young man.
(b) The victim's daughter.
(c) A robot.
(d) No one.

6. What does Baley think of Gladia's explanation of the difference between viewing and seeing?
(a) He is flabbergasted.
(b) He does not understand the explanation.
(c) He thinks it very wise.
(d) He doesn't agree with it.

7. How long does it take the robots to find Gladia after she faints?
(a) They find her immediately.
(b) 28 hours.
(c) 2 hours.
(d) 1/2 hour.

8. To what does Baley say he must become accustomed?
(a) Working with Olivaw again.
(b) Not seeing his wife.
(c) Seeing so many robots.
(d) Being out in the open.

9. Who works in the outside areas of Earth?
(a) No one.
(b) Animals bred for intelligence.
(c) Robots.
(d) Slaves.

10. What does Baley realize about the Solaria's inhabitant's attitude towards Olivaw?
(a) They do not know he is a robot.
(b) They are angry that a robot is sent to their home world.
(c) They like robots because they do not cause trouble.
(d) They are indifferent.

11. Who do the people on Solaria visit with each other?
(a) In person only.
(b) Through computer links.
(c) Through holographs.
(d) Through the tube.

12. Why is it unusual for a person from Earth to travel to Solaria?
(a) It takes 20 Earth years to travel one way to Solaria.
(b) It is at war with Earth.
(c) None has ever been there.
(d) It has an atmostphere based upon nitrogen.

13. What happens to the evidence in the murder case?
(a) It is eradicated by the household robots.
(b) It is still in the murder victim's room.
(c) It is in the evidence room.
(d) There is no evidence.

14. Who is Gladia?
(a) A detective on Solaria.
(b) The wife of the murder victim.
(c) The President's wife.
(d) The suspect in the murder case.

15. What does Gruer say Mr. Delmarre may have found?
(a) Evidence of a conspiracy.
(b) A very rich vein of titanium.
(c) A way to program robots to kill humans.
(d) The blueprints to a new type of space craft.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the approximate population of Solaria?

2. What does Baley ask Gladia about Gruer?

3. What happens to Gruer as he is talking with Baley?

4. What does Gladia do when she finds her husband?

5. Why is Earth in trouble?

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