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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Richard's response when he finds out that Philip Lentz has been deceiving him?
(a) He thanks Lentz for telling him the truth.
(b) He is furious.
(c) He is understanding.
(d) He breaks off ties with Lentz.

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

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

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

6. How long was Richard with C.?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 4 years.
(d) 22 years.

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

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

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

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

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

12. Where is Richard taking a position?
(a) At the Los Alamos lab.
(b) At the Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences.
(c) At Fermilab.
(d) At the Museum of Natural Science.

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

14. Which literary term describes the story about C.?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Back-story.

15. What does Richard say was a mother's consolation prize?
(a) U's education.
(b) E's emigration to the U.S.
(c) V's marriage.
(d) C's birth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens during Philip Lentz's experiment?

2. Why does Richard not take the position he is offered?

3. What did C. feel when her family told her that they were moving?

4. On what is Philip Lentz basing his project?

5. Where does Richard try to draw stories out of people?

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