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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Helen's favorite poem?
(a) 'Poison Tree'.
(b) 'Because I would not stop for death'.
(c) 'Evening Hymn'.
(d) 'The Most of It'.

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

3. Whom does Richard invite out for coffee?
(a) Harold Plover.
(b) C.
(c) A.
(d) Harold Plover's daughter Mina.

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

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

6. What behavior of Richard's does Helen emulate?
(a) How he pauses between passages.
(b) How he visualizes his reading.
(c) How he hums to himself as he reads.
(d) How he asks questions.

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

8. What does Diana tell Richard about having read?
(a) His book.
(b) Technical reviews of Lentz's work.
(c) Articles on neural activity.
(d) Theoretical works about robot consciousness.

9. What does Helen ask Richard?
(a) Whether he has ever loved a woman.
(b) Whether he has ever loved anything he created.
(c) If he can love her.
(d) Whether she will ever know love.

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

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

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

13. What does Richard think Helen will never be able to grasp?
(a) Relationships.
(b) Human beings.
(c) Literature.
(d) Subtleties.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused C. to come home in tears when she lived with Richard in the Netherlands?

2. Where does Lentz take Richard?

3. What story is Helen able to decipher when Richard reads it to her?

4. What kind of accident led the condition of Lentz's wife?

5. What is Richard's role in Philip Lentz's project?

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