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

2. What is the downside of Richard's work in C.'s experience?
(a) She loses her connection to the real world.
(b) She forgets her own language.
(c) She comes to mistake his characters' lives for her own.
(d) She speaks in artificial literary language.

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

4. What does Richard find when he accepts Diana's invitation?
(a) She has a crush on him.
(b) She wants to spend time with him alone.
(c) She has children.
(d) She wants to tell him secrets about Philip Lentz.

5. What story is Helen able to decipher when Richard reads it to her?
(a) "The Emperor's New Clothes".
(b) "Utopia".
(c) The story of Moses.
(d) "The Iliad".

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Richard having difficulty with in the present moment, in the beginning of section II?

3. What does Diana invite Richard to after chastising him?

4. About what kind of advances does Diana tell Richard?

5. To what do Richard's attempts at conversation lead him?

(see the answer key)

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