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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Richard think about after he gets the invitation from Diana Hartrick?
(a) Making love with C.
(b) Meeting C.
(c) Making love with Diana Hartrick.
(d) Going home for dinner.

2. To what does Richard compare implementation A?
(a) Someone with creative genius.
(b) Someone with autism.
(c) A loyal dog.
(d) A low-level amphibian.

3. Whom does Richard end up talking with, mostly?
(a) Students.
(b) Children.
(c) Young people.
(d) Old people.

4. To what do Richard's attempts at conversation lead him?
(a) Soothing thoughts about getting wiser over time.
(b) Depressing thoughts about old age.
(c) Disturbing thoughts about the state of the world.
(d) Alarming thoughts about the ignorance of college students.

5. What mistake does Diana say Philip Lentz is making in his project?
(a) Not giving his implementations motivation to answer correctly.
(b) Not giving his implementations audio input.
(c) Not modeling his implementations emotions.
(d) Not giving his implementations visual input.

6. Who does Philip Lentz call in to watch his experiment with implementation B?
(a) Harold Plover.
(b) Diana Hartrick.
(c) Richard.
(d) Ram Gupta.

7. What did Richard realize when C. heard that her parents were moving?
(a) That she was dying.
(b) That he did not know her well.
(c) That he loved her more than he had ever loved anyone.
(d) That she had a history she had hidden from him.

8. What does Richard suggest to Philip Lentz as a result of his conversation with Diana?
(a) New avenues for funding.
(b) Eyes for the implementations.
(c) Emotional histories for the implementations.
(d) Ears for the implementations.

9. How does Harold Plover treat Richard at lunch?
(a) He baits him.
(b) He confides in him.
(c) He encourages him.
(d) He insults him.

10. What does Richard translate Diana's insight into?
(a) A theory of machine emotions.
(b) Despair about the project.
(c) The concept of symbolic grounding.
(d) The imperative to teach the implementations pronunciation.

11. 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.

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

13. What is the first step in back propagation?
(a) Train a computer network to find data.
(b) Input data to a neural net.
(c) Build a network of supercomputers.
(d) Program a computer to distribute information.

14. Who is Ram Gupta?
(a) A philosopher.
(b) A sound wave researcher.
(c) A perception researcher.
(d) A cognitive psychologist.

15. What surprises Richard in his reaction to the time he spends with Diana?
(a) How lonely he has become.
(b) How passionate Diana is about her research.
(c) How passionate he becomes.
(d) How easily he gets along with her children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Richard meet C.?

2. How did Richard and C. handle the cold when they lived together?

3. On what is Philip Lentz basing his project?

4. What does Richard decide in response to his discovery that Lentz deceived him?

5. What kind of research is Philip Lentz conducting?

(see the answer keys)

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