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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Diana apologize to Richard?
(a) She writes him a long note.
(b) She invites him to lunch.
(c) She buys him a bottle of Scotch.
(d) She breaks with Lentz.

2. Where was Richard before he moved back to the U.S.?
(a) Russia.
(b) The Netherlands.
(c) China.
(d) England.

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

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

5. Philip Lentz's tirade make Richard think of _____.
(a) U.
(b) E.
(c) V.
(d) C.

6. What does time with Diana make Richard think back to about his time with C.?
(a) C. flirting with another man.
(b) C. going away to work with another researcher.
(c) C. wanting children.
(d) C. longing for anonymity after his book came out.

7. What is Richard working on at this new appointment?
(a) Building a robot.
(b) Developing a scientific model of consciousness.
(c) A new book.
(d) Building a supercomputer.

8. Where does Richard move to, at the beginning of "Galatea 2.2"?
(a) The town of U.
(b) The town of C.
(c) Chicago.
(d) The city of N.

9. What did C. begin to feel about Richard's writing?
(a) That it was more important than anything she was doing.
(b) That it was taking him away from her.
(c) That it was more real than he was.
(d) That it was turning her into a character of his.

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

11. What happened near the time Richard published his first book?
(a) C. moved back to live with her parents.
(b) C. got pregnant.
(c) C. heard that her parents were moving.
(d) C. received a promotion.

12. What is Richard worried about after his lunch with Philip Lentz and the others?
(a) Economic collapse.
(b) Imminent political instability.
(c) His project failing.
(d) Science stagnating.

13. Why does C. not join Richard in his plans?
(a) She does not have enough money to come with him.
(b) She does not trust him.
(c) She is involved with someone.
(d) She just was accepted into a graduate program.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Richard and C. have to furnish their apartment?

2. What was C.'s reaction to Richard's storytelling?

3. What happens during Philip Lentz's experiment?

4. What does Richard translate Diana's insight into?

5. Of what does Richard say he is afraid?

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