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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section IX (pages 241-273).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Richard fantasize about while training Helen?
(a) Meeting with A.
(b) Meeting Helen in human form.
(c) Writing to C.
(d) Getting a surprise visit from C.

2. What are Philip Lentz and his friends discussing when Richard joins them?
(a) When the global economy will collapse.
(b) Whether a person can comprehend the full extent of his or her reading.
(c) Whether a machine could read philosophy.
(d) What kind of progress remains to be made in astrophysics.

3. What does Philip Lentz lead Richard to believe?
(a) That C. was trying to get in touch with him.
(b) That implementation B was a failure.
(c) That implementation C had made huge strides.
(d) That he was giving Richard credit for implementation C's advances.

4. What does Richard begin to appreciate as he continues to work with Helen?
(a) How robots will never be human-like if they cannot have physical experiences.
(b) How formative physical experience is.
(c) How consciousness that is not rooted in physical experience is merely ethereal.
(d) How consciousness elevates people above material life.

5. What happens if information that comes out of back propagation does not match the information put in?
(a) It is discarded.
(b) It is corrected.
(c) It is sent through again.
(d) It is used for reprogramming the neural net.

Short Answer Questions

1. Philip Lentz's tirade make Richard think of _____.

2. What insight does Richard make about writers?

3. What does Richard begin to understand about C. when they live in the Netherlands together?

4. What does Richard decide in response to his discovery that Lentz deceived him?

5. What kind of accident led the condition of Lentz's wife?

(see the answer key)

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