Galatea 2.2 Quiz | One Week Quiz A

Richard Powers
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Galatea 2.2 Quiz | One Week Quiz A

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

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

3. How does Richard see similarities between Lentz's relationship with his wife and his work with the implementations?
(a) Lentz works with his wife the same way he trains his implementations.
(b) Lentz is patient and detailed with his wife the same way he is with the implementations.
(c) Lentz fails to elicit correct answers from his wife the same way he fails to elicit correct answers from his implementations.
(d) Lentz uses other people to train his wife, the same way as he uses Richard's help to train the implementations.

4. What does Lentz create for implementation F?
(a) A new procedure for building future implementations.
(b) A new algorithm to increase the number of connections in the neural net.
(c) A paradigm for streamlining the time it takes for data to traverse the neural net.
(d) A new protocol for prioritizing connections in the neural net.

5. 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 the secret of programming the algorithms.
(c) He wants to know the story of Lentz and his wife.
(d) He wants to know where Lentz is getting his funding.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which literary term describes the story about C.?

2. What does implementation F develop the ability to do?

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

4. Whose influence does Richard talk about over coffee?

5. Why does Richard not take the position he is offered?

(see the answer key)

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