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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 gives different answers to the same question, depending on the day.
(d) Helen understands object permanence.

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

3. When did Richard's relationship with C. end?
(a) When she found out that she was not in fact pregnant.
(b) When she found out that she could not have a baby with Richard.
(c) When she became pregnant by another man.
(d) When she had her baby.

4. What do Richard and C. do to relieve the tension in their relationship?
(a) Drink.
(b) Speak with each other only as needed.
(c) Travel.
(d) Make love.

5. 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.

6. What did Richard and C. decide when she went back to the Netherlands?
(a) They would probably never see each other again.
(b) They would try some time apart, and reassess their relationship after a year.
(c) He would move with her.
(d) He would follow after her.

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

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

9. What does Richard ask Helen during the training?
(a) What she knows.
(b) Where she comes from.
(c) What to do about C.
(d) Whether memory is real or not.

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

11. What does implementation F do as Richard trains it?
(a) Shut down certain circuits.
(b) Create redundant data paths.
(c) Rearrange its circuitry.
(d) Build new circuits.

12. How does Richard see similarities between Lentz's relationship with his wife and his work with the implementations?
(a) Lentz fails to elicit correct answers from his wife the same way he fails to elicit correct answers from his 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 is patient and detailed with his wife the same way he is with the implementations.

13. How was C. different in the Netherlands than she was in the U.S.?
(a) More thoughtful.
(b) More reticent.
(c) Happier.
(d) More materialistic.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is C.'s family like?

2. What does Richard realize about the things he could teach Helen?

3. What kind of thinking does implementation F demonstrate?

4. Though he finds it easier to talk to Helen, whom does Richard want to talk to instead?

5. What does Helen need to do, in order to win the contest?

(see the answer keys)

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