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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Richard suggest to Philip Lentz as a result of his conversation with Diana?
(a) New avenues for funding.
(b) Ears for the implementations.
(c) Eyes for the implementations.
(d) Emotional histories for the implementations.

2. What does Richard say about happiness, after Philip Lentz's experiment?
(a) He thinks that a computer will never know happiness until it can experience alienation.
(b) He does not think a computer will ever know happiness.
(c) He cannot tell whether he was happy in the past.
(d) He knows that he was happy once.

3. What does Diana invite Richard to after chastising him?
(a) A bar.
(b) The theatre.
(c) A walk in the woods.
(d) Dinner.

4. What does Richard attempt to do as he settles in to his new home?
(a) Listen to all the gossip around him.
(b) Get straight to work.
(c) Introduce himself to everyone.
(d) Fade into anonymity.

5. What mistake does Diana say Philip Lentz is making in his project?
(a) Not giving his implementations motivation to answer correctly.
(b) Not giving his implementations visual input.
(c) Not giving his implementations audio input.
(d) Not modeling his implementations emotions.

6. Where is Richard taking a position?
(a) At the Los Alamos lab.
(b) At the Museum of Natural Science.
(c) At the Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences.
(d) At Fermilab.

7. To what does Diana Hartrick invite Richard?
(a) A lecture.
(b) Lunch.
(c) A weekend away.
(d) A drink.

8. What does Richard see in the photograph of Philip Lentz and his wife?
(a) Torment.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Profound love.
(d) Worry.

9. What does Richard decide in response to his discovery that Lentz deceived him?
(a) Not to let Lentz handle money.
(b) To tell the administration at the center about Lentz's deceit.
(c) Not to work on Lentz's project any further.
(d) Never to trust Lentz again.

10. Which literary term describes the story about C.?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Back-story.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Symbolism.

11. How did Richard and C. handle the cold when they lived together?
(a) By cooking soups.
(b) By reading stories.
(c) By making love.
(d) By burning manuscript pages.

12. What is Philip Lentz starting to use as he works on implementation B?
(a) Additional processing power.
(b) Additional memory.
(c) 'No' commands.
(d) Teaching it to find information.

13. What surprises Richard in his reaction to the time he spends with Diana?
(a) How easily he gets along with her children.
(b) How lonely he has become.
(c) How passionate Diana is about her research.
(d) How passionate he becomes.

14. What is it that bothers Richard about Philip Lentz's deception?
(a) That he, Richard, cares so much about the project.
(b) That Lentz took Diana away from him.
(c) That he ever let Lentz close to him.
(d) That he has so little going for himself that he has become a character in Lentz' research.

15. What is implementation A?
(a) A robot.
(b) A recording device for unheard sounds.
(c) A machine that can be conditioned.
(d) A tool for analyzing consciousness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did C. begin to feel about Richard's writing?

2. What happens if information that comes out of back propagation does not match the information put in?

3. What does Richard translate Diana's insight into?

4. What did C. feel when her family told her that they were moving?

5. About what does Diana chastise Richard?

(see the answer keys)

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