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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Richard attend in Section VII?
(a) A service for Lentz's wife.
(b) A demonstration of one of Lentz's implementations.
(c) Dinner with Diana.
(d) A lecture by Lentz.

3. What did C's letters to Richard contain?
(a) Details about her affairs.
(b) Recipes from home.
(c) Stories from her mother.
(d) Insights into his books.

4. What does Richard tell Philip Lentz about Helen in section X?
(a) She is unhappy.
(b) She is at war with herself.
(c) She is alive.
(d) She is conscious.

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

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

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

9. What does Lentz recommend Richard teach to Helen?
(a) Backgammon.
(b) Chess.
(c) Opera.
(d) Books others will pick.

10. In what did C. try to get a certificate?
(a) Editing.
(b) Translation.
(c) Teaching.
(d) Massage.

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

12. What did C. do to make Richard love her?
(a) Give him support in his work.
(b) Tend to her own unique perspective in her work.
(c) Admire his writing.
(d) Adjust her life to his.

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

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

15. What does Lentz tell Richard he is doing with Helen?
(a) Sublimating his losses.
(b) Falling in love.
(c) Compensating for C.
(d) Projecting himself into the machine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Helen conclude from reading William Blake's 'Poison Tree'?

2. What did Richard's letters to C. contain?

3. What is Helen's favorite poem?

4. What does Lentz create for implementation F?

5. What is the downside of Richard's work in C.'s experience?

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