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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Richard say he was trying to live with C.?
(a) Contingent love.
(b) Improvised love.
(c) Traditional marriage.
(d) Open marriage.

3. What does Diana call Richard's book?
(a) Generous.
(b) Uptight.
(c) Brilliant.
(d) Misanthropic.

4. What is the consequence of C.'s response to Richard's work?
(a) She loses passion for her own.
(b) She gives up all her time for her own work.
(c) She makes herself miserable and alienates herself from her family.
(d) She loses a competition for funding for her work.

5. What does Richard teach Helen?
(a) Literature.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Physics.
(d) Science.

6. What happened after the success of Richard's book 'Gold Bug'?
(a) He convinced C. to move back to the U.S. with him.
(b) His relationship with C. diminished.
(c) He and C. became engaged.
(d) He broke off with C.

7. What kind of trauma did Audrey suffer?
(a) Fits of insanity.
(b) Paralysis.
(c) Memory loss.
(d) Depression.

8. What does Richard realize about the things he could teach Helen?
(a) None of the answers is correct.
(b) Consciousness can develop out of a small number of ideas.
(c) The list is endless.
(d) Some things are more important than others.

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

10. What causes Richard to come home in tears?
(a) Frustration with the Dutch language.
(b) Nostalgia for the U.S.
(c) Desire for marriage with C.
(d) Sadness over the imminent breakup with C.

11. What does Helen need to do, in order to win the contest?
(a) Replicate human experience.
(b) Understand but remain aloof from human experience.
(c) Write poetry.
(d) Console a grieving person.

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

13. What does the crash of implementation E lead Philip Lentz to develop?
(a) Eyes for the implementations.
(b) A theory of dissonance.
(c) Implementation F.
(d) A secondary input processing device for the implementation.

14. What does Helen make Richard see about consciousness?
(a) That it can only be produced in a being at war with itself.
(b) That it consists of a certain internal echoing effect.
(c) That it is only a fleeting and ineffable result of connections between neurons.
(d) That it constructs a best-fit pattern out of different input.

15. What kind of thinking does implementation F demonstrate?
(a) Abstract.
(b) Reflexive.
(c) Meditative.
(d) Associative.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Helen's reaction to A.?

2. What does Richard attend in Section VII?

3. Whom does Richard invite out for coffee?

4. What does Diana tell Richard about having read?

5. What do Richard and C. do to relieve the tension in their relationship?

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