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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. What are Auroran robots able to handle better than Earth robots?
(a) Piloting spacecraft.
(b) Personal service to humans.
(c) The Three Laws of Robotics.
(d) Complex situations.

2. From where are the origins of all life on Aurora?
(a) The parallel universe.
(b) The despised planet Earth.
(c) Evolution on Aurora.
(d) Colonization from Mars.

3. Why does Fastolfe refuse to sleep with Vasilia?
(a) She is married.
(b) She is not his type.
(c) She is under age.
(d) She is his daughter.

4. How does Fastolfe suggest Baley recall the idea that got away from him before he fell asleep?
(a) By using a Psychic Probe.
(b) By taking reverse steps.
(c) By putting it out of his mind for a while.
(d) By calling an astrologer.

5. What is Fastolfe's explanation for Jander's demise?
(a) A rare electrical surge.
(b) An extremely rare spontaneous event.
(c) A malfunction of Jander's circuitry.
(d) A fanatic humaniform hater.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Baley realize he would be willing to do?

2. Like the Personal, what irritates Baley about Fastolfe's home?

3. What does Gladia admit about her brief encounter with Baley three years ago?

4. What bluff does Baley attempt to pull on Fastolfe?

5. How is human/robot etiquette different on Aurora from that on Earth?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Vasilia and her sister, Lumen, differ politically from their father?

2. What are the reasons Auroran Globalists reject Earth people as having any part in Galactic Expansion?

3. How does the reunion of Baley and Fastolfe add to the suspense of the story?

4. Describe the impact on the weather as Baley goes about trying to prove Fastolfe's innocence.

5. How is Baley treated on the Auroran spaceship?

6. Even though Jander was in someone else's possession at the time of his death, why is Fastolfe a prime suspect?

7. Describe the political conflict going on on Aurora that possibly is the reason for trying to implicate Fastolfe in Jander's murder.

8. What are Earth cities like at the time of the novel?

9. Why does Daneel think it necessary to stay near Baley other than to guard him?

10. Explain why Baley is both unfamiliar with and panicked by a storm.

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