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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section XI (pages 301-329).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Philip Lentz refer to Richard in their second meeting?
(a) Little Marcel.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Dutchman.

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

3. Who comes over to talk to Richard in Section II?
(a) Keluga.
(b) Diana Hartrick.
(c) Chen.
(d) Philip Lentz.

4. What does Richard teach Helen to do?
(a) Sing.
(b) Categorize poems.
(c) Create images from poems.
(d) Feel a poem.

5. Why is Richard upset by his lunch with Philip Lentz and others?
(a) He is terrified by the fragility of the current peace.
(b) He cannot forget the hurt feelings felt by the people Lentz insults.
(c) He is afraid for the state of modern science.
(d) He is concerned that the others' research is overlooking one vital principle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Richard conclude about Lentz's feelings about working together?

2. What does implementation F do as Richard trains it?

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

4. What is Richard's emotional response to Lentz's study interest in Helen?

5. What does Philip Lentz design into implementation F to let it think recursively?

(see the answer key)

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