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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did Richard and C. live in the Netherlands?
(a) E.
(b) W.
(c) U.
(d) C.

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

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

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

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

7. What story is Helen able to decipher when Richard reads it to her?
(a) "The Iliad".
(b) The story of Moses.
(c) "Utopia".
(d) "The Emperor's New Clothes".

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

9. What does Helen make Richard see about consciousness?
(a) That it constructs a best-fit pattern out of different input.
(b) That it consists of a certain internal echoing effect.
(c) That it can only be produced in a being at war with itself.
(d) That it is only a fleeting and ineffable result of connections between neurons.

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

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

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

13. What were Richard's thoughts about having children when he was with C.?
(a) He did not want them.
(b) He felt he had missed his chance to have them.
(c) He wanted them, but C. did not.
(d) He wanted them, but in the future.

14. What causes Richard to come home in tears?
(a) Sadness over the imminent breakup with C.
(b) Nostalgia for the U.S.
(c) Frustration with the Dutch language.
(d) Desire for marriage with C.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lentz recommend Richard teach to Helen?

2. What does Richard ask Helen during the training?

3. About what kind of advances does Diana tell Richard?

4. What does Richard say he was trying to live with C.?

5. What does Richard give Philip Lentz as evidence for this assertion?

(see the answer keys)

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