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

2. What does Richard realize Helen is able to distinguish?
(a) Echoes and associations.
(b) Other people in the room.
(c) References to current events.
(d) Allusions.

3. What condition does Richard impose on doing any more work for Philip Lentz?
(a) He wants Lentz to apologize for deceiving him.
(b) He wants to know where Lentz is getting his funding.
(c) He wants to know the story of Lentz and his wife.
(d) He wants to know the secret of programming the algorithms.

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

5. Why does C. not join Richard in his plans?
(a) She just was accepted into a graduate program.
(b) She does not trust him.
(c) She is involved with someone.
(d) She does not have enough money to come with him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did C's letters to Richard contain?

2. What is Richard worried about after his lunch with Philip Lentz and the others?

3. What change does Philip Lentz make in implementation B?

4. What did Richard's letters to C. contain?

5. What does Richard think about after he gets the invitation from Diana Hartrick?

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