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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Helen need to do, in order to win the contest?
(a) Write poetry.
(b) Console a grieving person.
(c) Understand but remain aloof from human experience.
(d) Replicate human experience.

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

3. What do Richard and Harold Plover discuss in section VIII?
(a) Lentz.
(b) Helen.
(c) C.
(d) Plover's daughters.

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

5. What condition does Richard impose on doing any more work for Philip Lentz?
(a) He wants Lentz to apologize for deceiving him.
(b) He wants to know where Lentz is getting his funding.
(c) He wants to know the story of Lentz and his wife.
(d) He wants to know the secret of programming the algorithms.

6. How does Richard think about his letters to C.?
(a) Consolation for her losses.
(b) Revenge for her affairs.
(c) Repayment for the stories she told him.
(d) Acts of devotion to her.

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

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

9. What does Richard say writers should never hope to do?
(a) Get famous.
(b) Create living works.
(c) Make money.
(d) Win critical praise.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does implementation F develop the ability to do?

2. What does Philip Lentz design into implementation F to let it think recursively?

3. Why did Richard fall in love with C.?

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

5. What does Richard realize about the things he could teach Helen?

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