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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section IV (pages 91-119).
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Of what does Richard say he is afraid?
(a) Realizing his dreams.
(b) Wasting his opportunities.
(c) Losing his savings.
(d) Failing in his writing.
2. What does Richard attempt to do as he settles in to his new home?
(a) Listen to all the gossip around him.
(b) Fade into anonymity.
(c) Introduce himself to everyone.
(d) Get straight to work.
3. What are Philip Lentz and his friends discussing when Richard joins them?
(a) Whether a machine could read philosophy.
(b) When the global economy will collapse.
(c) Whether a person can comprehend the full extent of his or her reading.
(d) What kind of progress remains to be made in astrophysics.
4. How does Philip Lentz refer to Richard in their second meeting?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Dutchman.
(d) Little Marcel.
5. What does Richard say about happiness, after Philip Lentz's experiment?
(a) He thinks that a computer will never know happiness until it can experience alienation.
(b) He cannot tell whether he was happy in the past.
(c) He does not think a computer will ever know happiness.
(d) He knows that he was happy once.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is implementation A?
2. What is Richard working on at this new appointment?
3. Whom does Richard end up talking with, mostly?
4. Who does Philip Lentz call in to watch his experiment with implementation B?
5. To what does Richard compare implementation A?
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