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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. What does Philip Lentz say about implementation B?
(a) It needs to find its own energy sources.
(b) It needs to be able to teach itself how to solve problems.
(c) It needs to write its own programs.
(d) It needs to process its processing.

2. 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 knows that he was happy once.
(d) He does not think a computer will ever know happiness.

3. What is Richard's emotional response to Lentz's study interest in Helen?
(a) Acquiescence.
(b) Horror.
(c) Disgust.
(d) Apprehension.

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

5. What does Helen need to do, in order to win the contest?
(a) Understand but remain aloof from human experience.
(b) Write poetry.
(c) Console a grieving person.
(d) Replicate human experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What surprises Richard in his reaction to the time he spends with Diana?

2. Whom does Richard invite out for coffee?

3. What was C.'s job?

4. What does Richard realize about the things he could teach Helen?

5. When did Richard's relationship with C. end?

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