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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Richard see similarities between Lentz's relationship with his wife and his work with the implementations?
(a) Lentz is patient and detailed with his wife the same way he is with the implementations.
(b) Lentz works with his wife the same way he trains his implementations.
(c) Lentz uses other people to train his wife, the same way as he uses Richard's help to train the implementations.
(d) Lentz fails to elicit correct answers from his wife the same way he fails to elicit correct answers from his implementations.

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

3. When did Richard's relationship with C. end?
(a) When she found out that she could not have a baby with Richard.
(b) When she found out that she was not in fact pregnant.
(c) When she had her baby.
(d) When she became pregnant by another man.

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

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

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

7. What does Helen conclude from reading William Blake's 'Poison Tree'?
(a) Life can be reduced to black and white decisions.
(b) Writing is its own form of artificial intelligence.
(c) Man has created fictional absolutes to live by.
(d) Life is a gray area between absolutes.

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

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

10. What does implementation F develop the ability to do?
(a) Sing.
(b) Philosophize.
(c) Test hypotheses.
(d) Meditate.

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

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

13. How does Richard crash implementation E?
(a) By asking contradictory questions.
(b) By asking what it wants to talk about.
(c) None of the answers is correct.
(d) By asking it two questions at once.

14. How does Richard describe the experiment with Helen to A.?
(a) Brave.
(b) Enormous.
(c) Noble.
(d) Dangerous.

15. What insight does Richard make about writers?
(a) They have all wanted to possess their mothers.
(b) They have all wanted to murder their fathers.
(c) They have all disappointed their fathers.
(d) They have all created imaginary siblings for themselves.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Richard begin to understand about C. when they live in the Netherlands together?

3. What does Richard say Lentz has left behind him?

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

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

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