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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is C's response as Richard buries himself in his work?
(a) She is critical.
(b) She devotes herself to filling his needs.
(c) She is supportive.
(d) She is aloof from him.

2. What realm does Richard say Lentz has entered?
(a) Inspiration.
(b) Fiction.
(c) Pure facts.
(d) Speculative fantasy.

3. Why did Richard fall in love with C.?
(a) Her strength of character.
(b) Her visions.
(c) Her vulnerability.
(d) Her ability to console him.

4. How does Richard crash implementation E?
(a) By asking it two questions at once.
(b) By asking what it wants to talk about.
(c) By asking contradictory questions.
(d) None of the answers is correct.

5. What does Helen conclude from reading William Blake's 'Poison Tree'?
(a) Man has created fictional absolutes to live by.
(b) Life is a gray area between absolutes.
(c) Writing is its own form of artificial intelligence.
(d) Life can be reduced to black and white decisions.

6. How does Richard see similarities between Lentz's relationship with his wife and his work with the implementations?
(a) Lentz is patient and detailed with his wife the same way he is with the implementations.
(b) Lentz uses other people to train his wife, the same way as he uses Richard's help to train the implementations.
(c) Lentz works with his wife the same way he trains his implementations.
(d) Lentz fails to elicit correct answers from his wife the same way he fails to elicit correct answers from his implementations.

7. What does Richard's work do for C.?
(a) Gives her an excuse to feel affection for things.
(b) Gives her a world in which to live.
(c) Describes her to herself.
(d) Shows her things about the world.

8. What does Richard give Philip Lentz as evidence for this assertion?
(a) Helen understands her own mortality.
(b) Helen gives different answers to the same question, depending on the day.
(c) Helen understands object permanence.
(d) Helen does not perform unless she wants to.

9. Where did Richard and C. live in the Netherlands?
(a) E.
(b) C.
(c) W.
(d) U.

10. What does Richard say Lentz has left behind him?
(a) Math.
(b) Inspiration.
(c) Solid research.
(d) Humanness.

11. What do Richard and Harold Plover discuss in section VIII?
(a) C.
(b) Lentz.
(c) Helen.
(d) Plover's daughters.

12. What behavior of Richard's does Helen emulate?
(a) How he visualizes his reading.
(b) How he pauses between passages.
(c) How he asks questions.
(d) How he hums to himself as he reads.

13. What story is Helen able to decipher when Richard reads it to her?
(a) "Utopia".
(b) The story of Moses.
(c) "The Emperor's New Clothes".
(d) "The Iliad".

14. Whose influence does Richard talk about over coffee?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Taylor.
(c) Wordsworth.
(d) Emerson.

15. What is the downside of Richard's work in C.'s experience?
(a) She speaks in artificial literary language.
(b) She comes to mistake his characters' lives for her own.
(c) She forgets her own language.
(d) She loses her connection to the real world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Richard to come home in tears?

2. What does Lentz do as a result of Helen's response during his and Richard's argument?

3. What caused C. to come home in tears when she lived with Richard in the Netherlands?

4. What does Richard tell Philip Lentz about Helen in section X?

5. What condition does Richard impose on doing any more work for Philip Lentz?

(see the answer keys)

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