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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many robots work on Solaria?
(a) None.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 200,000,000.

2. Why do people feel comfortable looking any way when using a viewer?
(a) Because the viewer is only for voice; not visual.
(b) Because it is not considered polite to look at the person with whom one is chatting on a viewer.
(c) Because it is a very relaxed culture.
(d) Because a viewer does not entail smell or feel.

3. What is important to the inhabitants of Solaria?
(a) Their family ties.
(b) The cultural mores.
(c) The foods they produce.
(d) Their robots.

4. Of what is Gladia certain?
(a) Her husband would not have allowed anyone to "see" him.
(b) Her husband is greatly loved.
(c) There was no one else in the President's mansion when she finds her husband.
(d) Her husband is a good man.

5. What causes Gladia to go to her husband?
(a) He rings for her.
(b) He misses a scheduled "seeing."
(c) She hears a scream.
(d) He asks her to visit him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is said about the Outer Worlds' military power?

2. What does Gladia say about when she "sees" her husband?

3. Who does Gruer think is the murderer?

4. From what planet is the person joining Baley?

5. Where is the victim's body?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gladia ask Elijah about his and Daneel's proximity and what is Elijah's response?

2. Where is Elijah Baley at the opening of the novel and about what is he thinking?

3. Describe Elijah Baley.

4. Discuss the laws of robotics.

5. How are the farming and mining areas set apart from other Earth space?

6. Why do the authorities believe Gladia did not kill her husband and what does Gladia say when Elijah asks her if she did it?

7. How is the Earth encased, and how does that make Elijah feel?

8. Who is the Undersecretary and what does he order Baley to do and why?

9. Why does Daneel believe Gladia is naked while first "viewing" with Elijah?

10. How do people on the Outer Worlds view Earthmen?

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