 How are citizens organized into different classes in society?
They were such cute synthetic creatures, it was impossible not to love them. "A small child is an imbecile. "You're taking intelligence as the only criterion of humanity," he protested hopelessly, knowing that a logical defense was useless against sentimentality. But think—we get this house rent-free; I've got my own district with no bosses around; I make my own hours; you'll meet lots of people that stop in at the pound. If I don't want to follow my aptitudes, the only choice is common labor. "They assigned me to it because I liked babies. And because I have a B.S. in biology and an aptitude for dealing with people. Destroying unclaimed units is the smallest part of it. Honey, before the evolvotron, before Anthropos went into the mutant-animal business, people used to elect dogcatchers. The suburban street wound among the pastel plasticoid cottages that were set approximately two to an acre on the lightly wooded land. With its population legally fixed at three hundred million, most of the country had become one big suburb, dotted with community centers and lined with narrow belts of industrial development. It was a cat-Q-5. The cat-Q-5 took its time about answering. A class-C couple, allowed no children of their own, could get quite attached to a cat-Q-5. The felines were emotionally safer than the quasi-human chimp-K series called "neutroids." When a pet neutroid died, a family was broken with grief; but most couples could endure the death of a cat-Q or a dog-F. Class-C couples were allowed two lesser units or one neutroid. He found himself in Sherman III Community Center—eight blocks of commercial buildings, serving the surrounding suburbs. You will immediately begin a systematic and thorough survey of all animals whose serial numbers fall in the Bermuda-K-99 series for birth dates during July 2234. This is in connection with the Delmont Negligency Case. Seize all animals in this category, impound, and run proper sections of normalcy tests. Delmont has confessed to passing only one non-standard unit, but there may be others. This could be a ruse to bring a stop to investigations when one animal is found. If allowed to reach age-set or adulthood, such a deviant could be dangerous to its owner or to others. Forward to central lab. Its replacement-quota of new neutroids was around three hundred animals a month. He tried to estimate how many of July's influx had been K-99s from Bermuda Factory.
 By an analysis of their genes and heredity
 Through random assignment at birth  According to their socioeconomic status  After a lengthy interview with Anthropos upon reaching a specific age-set  By an analysis of their genes and heredity