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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What was Richard like when he went to the Netherlands with C.?
(a) Awkward.
(b) Reticent.
(c) Confident.
(d) Sly.
2. 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".
3. What does Richard begin to appreciate as he continues to work with Helen?
(a) How consciousness elevates people above material life.
(b) How formative physical experience is.
(c) How robots will never be human-like if they cannot have physical experiences.
(d) How consciousness that is not rooted in physical experience is merely ethereal.
4. What do Richard and C. do to relieve the tension in their relationship?
(a) Drink.
(b) Make love.
(c) Speak with each other only as needed.
(d) Travel.
5. In what did C. try to get a certificate?
(a) Editing.
(b) Massage.
(c) Translation.
(d) Teaching.
6. What does Helen have to be able to do in order to analyze literature?
(a) Meditate.
(b) Think.
(c) Index.
(d) Cross-reference.
7. When did Richard's relationship with C. end?
(a) When she became pregnant by another man.
(b) When she found out that she was not in fact pregnant.
(c) When she had her baby.
(d) When she found out that she could not have a baby with Richard.
8. What causes Richard to come home in tears?
(a) Sadness over the imminent breakup with C.
(b) Desire for marriage with C.
(c) Nostalgia for the U.S.
(d) Frustration with the Dutch language.
9. 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.
10. What does Richard teach Helen?
(a) Science.
(b) Physics.
(c) Literature.
(d) Psychology.
11. What does Helen conclude from reading William Blake's 'Poison Tree'?
(a) Writing is its own form of artificial intelligence.
(b) Life is a gray area between absolutes.
(c) Man has created fictional absolutes to live by.
(d) Life can be reduced to black and white decisions.
12. What does Helen need to do, in order to win the contest?
(a) Replicate human experience.
(b) Console a grieving person.
(c) Understand but remain aloof from human experience.
(d) Write poetry.
13. What does Richard give Philip Lentz as evidence for this assertion?
(a) Helen understands her own mortality.
(b) Helen does not perform unless she wants to.
(c) Helen understands object permanence.
(d) Helen gives different answers to the same question, depending on the day.
14. What does Philip Lentz design into implementation F to let it think recursively?
(a) New circuitry.
(b) Access to more texts.
(c) A rule structure.
(d) Access to images.
15. What is C.'s family like?
(a) Far-flung.
(b) Large.
(c) Standoffish.
(d) Small.
Short Answer Questions
1. What realm does Richard say Lentz has entered?
2. How does Richard describe the experiment with Helen to A.?
3. What does Lentz create for implementation F?
4. Whom does Richard invite out for coffee?
5. Whose influence does Richard talk about over coffee?
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