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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Richard say about the machine Philip Lentz built?
(a) It replicates consciousness.
(b) It recognizes him when he returns to the room.
(c) It contained the immense distances of open space.
(d) Lentz was training it to recognize beauty.

2. What draws Richard to Philip Lentz's office?
(a) Mozart music.
(b) Loud conversation.
(c) He hears John Donne's poetry.
(d) Groaning.

3. Where does Richard try to draw stories out of people?
(a) Phone calls to his friends.
(b) Lectures at the center.
(c) The supermarket.
(d) A local bar.

4. Where did Richard live with C.?
(a) In B.
(b) In Paris.
(c) In London.
(d) In U.

5. About what does Diana chastise Richard?
(a) Not sleeping.
(b) Drinking too much.
(c) Not eating.
(d) Smoking too much.

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

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

8. What are Philip Lentz and his friends discussing when Richard joins them?
(a) When the global economy will collapse.
(b) Whether a machine could read philosophy.
(c) Whether a person can comprehend the full extent of his or her reading.
(d) What kind of progress remains to be made in astrophysics.

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

10. How does Philip Lentz respond when Diana Hartrick challenges him?
(a) He agrees that she has a valid point.
(b) He explains at length.
(c) He insults her.
(d) He jumps out of his seat with a realization.

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

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

13. What does Richard think about after the scene of Philip Lentz's experiment?
(a) The abilities of robots.
(b) His first year with C.
(c) The sadness of being human.
(d) The text Lentz chose.

14. Why has this person come to talk to Richard in Section II?
(a) To enlist him in arguing against Philip Lentz.
(b) To sooth his loneliness.
(c) To put Philip Lentz in his place.
(d) To support Philip Lentz's theories.

15. Where did Richard meet C.?
(a) In a class she was teaching.
(b) In a class he was teaching.
(c) By chance in a bookstore.
(d) At a conference where she was speaking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Philip Lentz say about implementation B?

2. What does Richard finish in the beginning of section II?

3. Who comes over to talk to Richard in Section II?

4. What did Richard realize when C. heard that her parents were moving?

5. What is Richard working on at this new appointment?

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