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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where did Richard live with C.?
(a) In Paris.
(b) In U.
(c) In London.
(d) In B.
2. What is the connection in the articles Philip Lentz gives Richard?
(a) Ecological interconnection.
(b) Destabilization of currencies.
(c) Climate change.
(d) Neural nets.
3. What does Richard say about happiness, after Philip Lentz's experiment?
(a) He thinks that a computer will never know happiness until it can experience alienation.
(b) He cannot tell whether he was happy in the past.
(c) He knows that he was happy once.
(d) He does not think a computer will ever know happiness.
4. For how long were Richard and C. happy together?
(a) Six months.
(b) Two years.
(c) Seven years.
(d) Ten years.
5. Where is Richard taking a position?
(a) At Fermilab.
(b) At the Museum of Natural Science.
(c) At the Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences.
(d) At the Los Alamos lab.
6. On what is Philip Lentz basing his project?
(a) Evolutionary mechanisms of survival.
(b) The functions of the human mind.
(c) Astronomical distances.
(d) Naturally-occurring architectural structures.
7. Where did Richard meet C.?
(a) At a conference where she was speaking.
(b) In a class she was teaching.
(c) In a class he was teaching.
(d) By chance in a bookstore.
8. What did Richard realize when C. heard that her parents were moving?
(a) That he loved her more than he had ever loved anyone.
(b) That she had a history she had hidden from him.
(c) That she was dying.
(d) That he did not know her well.
9. What is Philip Lentz starting to use as he works on implementation B?
(a) Teaching it to find information.
(b) 'No' commands.
(c) Additional processing power.
(d) Additional memory.
10. What does Richard translate Diana's insight into?
(a) The concept of symbolic grounding.
(b) A theory of machine emotions.
(c) The imperative to teach the implementations pronunciation.
(d) Despair about the project.
11. What does Philip Lentz say about implementation B?
(a) It needs to find its own energy sources.
(b) It needs to process its processing.
(c) It needs to write its own programs.
(d) It needs to be able to teach itself how to solve problems.
12. Philip Lentz's tirade make Richard think of _____.
(a) U.
(b) V.
(c) E.
(d) C.
13. How does Richard act on his decision?
(a) He joins Lentz nonetheless.
(b) He reports Lentz's behavior to the Center.
(c) He tells everyone about Lentz's deceit.
(d) He holds his tongue.
14. What happened near the time Richard published his first book?
(a) C. got pregnant.
(b) C. heard that her parents were moving.
(c) C. received a promotion.
(d) C. moved back to live with her parents.
15. What was C.'s reaction to Richard's storytelling?
(a) She was enthusiastic and collaborated with him as he told the stories.
(b) She was patient but uninterested.
(c) She was rapt.
(d) She pretended to be interested.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Philip Lentz lead Richard to believe?
2. Where does Richard move to, at the beginning of "Galatea 2.2"?
3. What kind of research is Philip Lentz conducting?
4. What is Richard worried about after his lunch with Philip Lentz and the others?
5. About what does Diana chastise Richard?
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