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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section VII (pages 181-210).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Richard think about after the scene of Philip Lentz's experiment?
(a) His first year with C.
(b) The text Lentz chose.
(c) The sadness of being human.
(d) The abilities of robots.

2. What does Philip Lentz say about implementation B?
(a) It needs to be able to teach itself how to solve problems.
(b) It needs to process its processing.
(c) It needs to find its own energy sources.
(d) It needs to write its own programs.

3. What causes Richard to threaten to leave Philip Lentz's project?
(a) Problems with its theoretical foundations.
(b) Lentz's sexism.
(c) Lentz's cynicism.
(d) Lentz's drinking.

4. What does Richard translate Diana's insight into?
(a) The imperative to teach the implementations pronunciation.
(b) The concept of symbolic grounding.
(c) Despair about the project.
(d) A theory of machine emotions.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Richard meet C.?

2. How does Diana apologize to Richard?

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

4. What was Richard like when he went to the Netherlands with C.?

5. What is C.'s family like?

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