2. What does Philip Lentz lead Richard to believe?
(a) That C. was trying to get in touch with him.
(b) That implementation C had made huge strides.
(c) That implementation B was a failure.
(d) That he was giving Richard credit for implementation C's advances.

3. How does Philip Lentz refer to the location where Richard lived before coming to this location?
(a) A negligible nation.
(b) A powerful intellectual center.
(c) An obscure colony.
(d) The center of the world.

4. What was C.'s job?
(a) Student.
(b) Marketing executive.
(c) Programmer analyst.
(d) Museum guard.

5. What was Richard's job when he lived with C.?
(a) Researcher.
(b) Museum guard.
(c) Programmer.
(d) Tour guide.

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

7. How does Richard describe his relationship with C.?
(a) They never really connected.
(b) They merged into being one person.
(c) They became each other's best friends and worst enemies.
(d) They were alone in each other's company.

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

9. What causes Richard to threaten to leave Philip Lentz's project?
(a) Problems with its theoretical foundations.
(b) Lentz's sexism.
(c) Lentz's drinking.
(d) Lentz's cynicism.

10. What is Richard having difficulty with in the present moment, in the beginning of section II?
(a) Remembering things.
(b) Getting in touch with his editor.
(c) Getting paid.
(d) Devising a plot for his next novel.

11. What was C.'s reaction to Richard's storytelling?
(a) She was rapt.
(b) She was patient but uninterested.
(c) She was enthusiastic and collaborated with him as he told the stories.
(d) She pretended to be interested.

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

13. What does Richard say about happiness, after Philip Lentz's experiment?
(a) He knows that he was happy once.
(b) He thinks that a computer will never know happiness until it can experience alienation.
(c) He cannot tell whether he was happy in the past.
(d) He does not think a computer will ever know happiness.

14. With what does Philip Lentz want to test implementation B?
(a) Music.
(b) Literature.
(c) Moving images.
(d) History.

15. What is Richard doing at the beginning of section IV?
(a) Revising his novel.
(b) Working on implementation B.
(c) Talking with Diana Hartrick.
(d) Thinking about C.