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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. What does Richard say he was trying to live with C.?
(a) Improvised love.
(b) Contingent love.
(c) Traditional marriage.
(d) Open marriage.

4. What does Richard feel about C.'s coming home in tears?
(a) It is his fault.
(b) The phase will pass.
(c) She should toughen up.
(d) The tears are necessary in this kind of experience.

5. What did Richard and C. decide when she went back to the Netherlands?
(a) He would move with her.
(b) They would try some time apart, and reassess their relationship after a year.
(c) He would follow after her.
(d) They would probably never see each other again.

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

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

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

9. How was C. different in the Netherlands than she was in the U.S.?
(a) Happier.
(b) More materialistic.
(c) More thoughtful.
(d) More reticent.

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

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

12. What does Harold Plover say his daughter wanted instead of nouns?
(a) Verbs.
(b) The first-person pronoun.
(c) Processes.
(d) Adjectives.

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

14. What does Richard realize about the things he could teach Helen?
(a) The list is endless.
(b) None of the answers is correct.
(c) Consciousness can develop out of a small number of ideas.
(d) Some things are more important than others.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what did C. try to get a certificate?

2. What does Richard's work do for C.?

3. Where did Richard and C. live in the Netherlands?

4. What does Richard realize Helen is able to distinguish?

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

(see the answer keys)

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