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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 Helen conclude from reading William Blake's 'Poison Tree'?
(a) Life is a gray area between absolutes.
(b) Man has created fictional absolutes to live by.
(c) Life can be reduced to black and white decisions.
(d) Writing is its own form of artificial intelligence.

2. How was C. different in the Netherlands than she was in the U.S.?
(a) More materialistic.
(b) More reticent.
(c) Happier.
(d) More thoughtful.

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

4. What change does Philip Lentz make in implementation B?
(a) A decrease in retention ability.
(b) An increase in retention ability.
(c) An increase in processor speeds.
(d) An increase in interconnections.

5. What is Richard worried about after his lunch with Philip Lentz and the others?
(a) Economic collapse.
(b) Imminent political instability.
(c) His project failing.
(d) Science stagnating.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Richard say he is afraid?

2. What is Richard doing at the beginning of section IV?

3. How long was Richard with C.?

4. What does Richard decide in response to his discovery that Lentz deceived him?

5. For how long were Richard and C. happy together?

(see the answer key)

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