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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section V (pages 120-152).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Richard try to draw stories out of people?
(a) Phone calls to his friends.
(b) A local bar.
(c) Lectures at the center.
(d) The supermarket.

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 mistake does Diana say Philip Lentz is making in his project?
(a) Not giving his implementations motivation to answer correctly.
(b) Not giving his implementations visual input.
(c) Not modeling his implementations emotions.
(d) Not giving his implementations audio input.

4. What is the first step in back propagation?
(a) Program a computer to distribute information.
(b) Build a network of supercomputers.
(c) Input data to a neural net.
(d) Train a computer network to find data.

5. What is it that bothers Richard about Philip Lentz's deception?
(a) That Lentz took Diana away from him.
(b) That he ever let Lentz close to him.
(c) That he, Richard, cares so much about the project.
(d) That he has so little going for himself that he has become a character in Lentz' research.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Richard meet C.?

2. How does Richard refer to Philip Lentz in their second meeting?

3. Why does C. not join Richard in his plans?

4. What does Richard say about happiness, after Philip Lentz's experiment?

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

(see the answer key)

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