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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Harold Plover say his daughter wanted instead of nouns?
(a) Processes.
(b) The first-person pronoun.
(c) Verbs.
(d) Adjectives.

2. What does Helen have to be able to do in order to analyze literature?
(a) Cross-reference.
(b) Think.
(c) Index.
(d) Meditate.

3. What does Richard begin to understand about C. when they live in the Netherlands together?
(a) His own role as a writer with a strong family.
(b) Her difficulties with American culture.
(c) Her need for family.
(d) Her longing for the landscape.

4. What does Lentz argue about Helen's mindset?
(a) She has begun to create meaning independently.
(b) All her meanings are Richard's meanings.
(c) Her attempts at meaning are more meaningful than the results.
(d) Her meanings are random combinations of notions.

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

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

7. What did Harold Plover realize his daughter was talking about when she was pointing at things?
(a) The things themselves.
(b) Him.
(c) Herself.
(d) Freedom.

8. What does Richard realize Helen is able to distinguish?
(a) Allusions.
(b) References to current events.
(c) Echoes and associations.
(d) Other people in the room.

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

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

11. What does Richard read to implementation H?
(a) Anything he can think of.
(b) Catalogs.
(c) Donne.
(d) Shakespeare.

12. 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 does not perform unless she wants to.
(d) Helen understands object permanence.

13. About what kind of advances does Diana tell Richard?
(a) Connectivity protocols that reduce bottlenecks.
(b) Imaging technology that allows localization of neuron activity.
(c) Programming protocols for testing hypotheses.
(d) Memory protocols to give machines awareness of the tasks they execute.

14. What kind of accident led the condition of Lentz's wife?
(a) A mountaineering accident.
(b) A skiing accident.
(c) A car accident.
(d) A cardiovascular accident.

15. What does Richard teach Helen to do?
(a) Sing.
(b) Create images from poems.
(c) Categorize poems.
(d) Feel a poem.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Richard think Helen will never be able to grasp?

2. Where does Lentz take Richard?

3. What does Richard fantasize about while training Helen?

4. What were Richard's thoughts about having children when he was with C.?

5. What does implementation F do as Richard trains it?

(see the answer keys)

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