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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Though he finds it easier to talk to Helen, whom does Richard want to talk to instead?
(a) Lentz.
(b) A.
(c) Diana.
(d) C.

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

4. What does Richard fantasize about while training Helen?
(a) Getting a surprise visit from C.
(b) Writing to C.
(c) Meeting Helen in human form.
(d) Meeting with A.

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

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

7. How does Richard think about his letters to C.?
(a) Repayment for the stories she told him.
(b) Acts of devotion to her.
(c) Revenge for her affairs.
(d) Consolation for her losses.

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

9. What is Richard's role in Philip Lentz's project?
(a) Designing.
(b) Promoting.
(c) Programming.
(d) Training.

10. What is C.'s family like?
(a) Standoffish.
(b) Small.
(c) Large.
(d) Far-flung.

11. What does Richard begin to appreciate as he continues to work with Helen?
(a) How robots will never be human-like if they cannot have physical experiences.
(b) How consciousness that is not rooted in physical experience is merely ethereal.
(c) How consciousness elevates people above material life.
(d) How formative physical experience is.

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

13. What was the lovemaking like at the end of Richard's relationship with C.?
(a) Fierce.
(b) Dispassionate.
(c) Taciturn.
(d) Whimsical.

14. 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.

15. What does Lentz create for implementation F?
(a) A new procedure for building future implementations.
(b) A paradigm for streamlining the time it takes for data to traverse the neural net.
(c) A new algorithm to increase the number of connections in the neural net.
(d) A new protocol for prioritizing connections in the neural net.

Short Answer Questions

1. What behavior of Richard's does Helen emulate?

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

3. What does Richard say writers should never hope to do?

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

5. What does Helen make Richard see about consciousness?

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