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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Richard begin to understand about C. when they live in the Netherlands together?
(a) Her longing for the landscape.
(b) His own role as a writer with a strong family.
(c) Her need for family.
(d) Her difficulties with American culture.

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

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

4. What is the consequence of C.'s response to Richard's work?
(a) She gives up all her time for her own work.
(b) She loses a competition for funding for her work.
(c) She makes herself miserable and alienates herself from her family.
(d) She loses passion for her own.

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

6. What kind of thinking does implementation F demonstrate?
(a) Reflexive.
(b) Abstract.
(c) Associative.
(d) Meditative.

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

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

9. What does Philip Lentz design into implementation F to let it think recursively?
(a) Access to images.
(b) New circuitry.
(c) A rule structure.
(d) Access to more texts.

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

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

12. Where does Lentz take Richard?
(a) The cemetery where his wife is buried.
(b) The long-term care facility where his wife lives.
(c) The house where his wife lives with another man.
(d) The mental hospital where his wife lives.

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

14. About what kind of advances does Diana tell Richard?
(a) Memory protocols to give machines awareness of the tasks they execute.
(b) Programming protocols for testing hypotheses.
(c) Connectivity protocols that reduce bottlenecks.
(d) Imaging technology that allows localization of neuron activity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was C.'s experience of certification?

2. What does Lentz tell Richard he is doing with Helen?

3. What were Richard's thoughts about having children when he was with C.?

4. What does Richard fantasize about while training Helen?

5. What did Harold Plover realize his daughter was talking about when she was pointing at things?

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