Galatea 2.2 Test | Final Test - Easy

Richard Powers
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Galatea 2.2 Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What behavior of Richard's does Helen emulate?
(a) How he asks questions.
(b) How he visualizes his reading.
(c) How he pauses between passages.
(d) How he hums to himself as he reads.

2. What does Richard say writers should never hope to do?
(a) Get famous.
(b) Win critical praise.
(c) Make money.
(d) Create living works.

3. What is C's response as Richard buries himself in his work?
(a) She devotes herself to filling his needs.
(b) She is aloof from him.
(c) She is supportive.
(d) She is critical.

4. When did Richard's relationship with C. end?
(a) When she found out that she could not have a baby with Richard.
(b) When she had her baby.
(c) When she became pregnant by another man.
(d) When she found out that she was not in fact pregnant.

5. What does Richard say Lentz has left behind him?
(a) Solid research.
(b) Humanness.
(c) Math.
(d) Inspiration.

6. What was the lovemaking like at the end of Richard's relationship with C.?
(a) Whimsical.
(b) Dispassionate.
(c) Taciturn.
(d) Fierce.

7. What does Diana tell Richard about having read?
(a) Articles on neural activity.
(b) Technical reviews of Lentz's work.
(c) His book.
(d) Theoretical works about robot consciousness.

8. What does Helen ask Richard?
(a) Whether he has ever loved anything he created.
(b) Whether she will ever know love.
(c) If he can love her.
(d) Whether he has ever loved a woman.

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

10. How does Richard think about his letters to C.?
(a) Repayment for the stories she told him.
(b) Revenge for her affairs.
(c) Consolation for her losses.
(d) Acts of devotion to her.

11. Though he finds it easier to talk to Helen, whom does Richard want to talk to instead?
(a) Diana.
(b) C.
(c) A.
(d) Lentz.

12. What does Richard say he was trying to live with C.?
(a) Traditional marriage.
(b) Contingent love.
(c) Open marriage.
(d) Improvised love.

13. What does Lentz do as a result of Helen's response during his and Richard's argument?
(a) Spend less time with Helen.
(b) Give Helen more scientific and philosophical texts.
(c) Reconsider his conclusion about Helen's consciousness.
(d) Ask A. out for coffee.

14. About what kind of advances does Diana tell Richard?
(a) Imaging technology that allows localization of neuron activity.
(b) Connectivity protocols that reduce bottlenecks.
(c) Programming protocols for testing hypotheses.
(d) Memory protocols to give machines awareness of the tasks they execute.

15. What does implementation F develop the ability to do?
(a) Test hypotheses.
(b) Philosophize.
(c) Sing.
(d) Meditate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lentz argue about Helen's mindset?

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

3. What does implementation F do as Richard trains it?

4. What does Diana call Richard's book?

5. What is C.'s family like?

(see the answer keys)

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