2. What is Philip Lentz starting to use as he works on implementation B?
(a) 'No' commands.
(b) Teaching it to find information.
(c) Additional processing power.
(d) Additional memory.

3. What does Richard attempt to do as he settles in to his new home?
(a) Get straight to work.
(b) Fade into anonymity.
(c) Listen to all the gossip around him.
(d) Introduce himself to everyone.

4. What is implementation A?
(a) A tool for analyzing consciousness.
(b) A robot.
(c) A recording device for unheard sounds.
(d) A machine that can be conditioned.

5. What happens if information that comes out of back propagation does not match the information put in?
(a) It is corrected.
(b) It is sent through again.
(c) It is discarded.
(d) It is used for reprogramming the neural net.

6. What did Richard and C. have to furnish their apartment?
(a) Expensive new furniture.
(b) Dilapidated furniture.
(c) Inherited furniture.
(d) Used furniture.

7. What is the connection in the articles Philip Lentz gives Richard?
(a) Ecological interconnection.
(b) Destabilization of currencies.
(c) Neural nets.
(d) Climate change.

8. Who is Diana?
(a) Philip Lentz's research assistant.
(b) Philip Lentz's lover.
(c) The person answering the questions for implementation C.
(d) Richard's lover.

9. On what is Philip Lentz basing his project?
(a) Evolutionary mechanisms of survival.
(b) Astronomical distances.
(c) The functions of the human mind.
(d) Naturally-occurring architectural structures.

10. What happens during Philip Lentz's experiment?
(a) Implementation B identifies the people in the images.
(b) Implementation B deciphers the text.
(c) Implementation B identifies the music.
(d) Implementation B recognizes the historical period of the piece.

11. Where does Richard see Philip Lentz?
(a) Drinking with an attractive woman who seems to be a student.
(b) On the edge of a crowd watching music.
(c) In the middle of a crowd of people discussing theory.
(d) Drinking alone.

12. With whom does Richard have an encounter at the end of section IV?
(a) C.
(b) A.
(c) Implementation B.
(d) Philip Lentz.

13. Where does Richard draw the characters for his novels?
(a) His lovers and their time together.
(b) His family history.
(c) His ex-lovers' families.
(d) His family.

14. What kind of research is Philip Lentz conducting?
(a) Experimenting with sound waves.
(b) Teaching semiconductors to simulate neurons.
(c) Making a mathematical model for consciousness.
(d) Building a computer for handling extremely large calculations.

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