Characters
a robo-psychologist who drove one robot insane
Dr.Susan Calvin
Gloria is upset in the story "Robbie" when...
her mother got rid of Robbie
Donovan and Powell are so upset with Cutie in the story "Reason" for what reason?
Correct Answer: He failed to focus the beam, since he doesn't believe people exist on Earth.
Herbie, in "Liar!" was a special robot because he
could read minds
How did The Brain, the robot in "Escape!" deal with the fact that human beings would be temporarily harmed during hyperdrive?
he developed a sense of humor.
calm. intellectual robot trouble-shooter; expert on robot brains.
Gregory Powell
Gloria's mother decides that she doesn't want her daughter to have a nanny robot because...?
Correct Answer: she is regretting having spent so little time with her daughter, and wants to make up for it.
When Powell calls Cutie a "robot Descartes" he does so because Cutie...
says that the one thing he cannot doubt is his existence as thinking being.
The reason that Herbie lied to human beings in "Liar!" was because
he didn't want to hurt them.
The Brain's personality could be BEST described as
child-like
Hot-headed robot trouble-shooter; expert on robot bodies
Mike Donavan
Why was the 3rd Law of Robotics strengthened in Speedy in the story "Runaround"?
to make him protect himself to a greater degree because of his cost
What does Donovan and Powell conclude about Cutie's ability to run the space station?
He is fully capable of running the station, regardless of what he believes.
Why does Dr.Calvin give one robot an insoluble dilemma involve the 1st law -- that if the robot tells the truth, he hurts people, and if he doesn't tell the truth, he still hurts people?
REVENGE
Francis Quinn wanted to prove that his opponent was a robot because he wanted
to win an election
invented positronic brain; founded US Robots
Lawrence Robertson
What does Powell have to do to successfully retrieve a robot running in circles around a pool of selenium, which they need in order to survive the heat of Mercury?
Powell's final explanation for the bizarre marching and dancing activities of the subsidiary robots in "Catch That Rabbit" is that what they are doing is...
twiddling their fingers
Why have 12 of the robots in "Little Lost Robot" been given altered 1st laws?
to allow humans to work in gamma rays
Steven Byerly won the election when he
proved that he wasn't a robot
planned to marry a blond who was not his cousin
Milton Ashe
What is the 1st Law of Robotics?
How does Powell snap the robots out of their bizarre behavior at the end of the story "Catch That Rabbit"?
he shoots one of the subsidiary robots to decrease the personal initiative load.
How did Susan Calvin feel about there being robots with altered 1st laws?
She thought it was terribly dangerous.
Clavin thinks that robots make the ideal civil servants because...
they are bound by the three laws.