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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the downside of Richard's work in C.'s experience?
(a) She forgets her own language.
(b) She comes to mistake his characters' lives for her own.
(c) She loses her connection to the real world.
(d) She speaks in artificial literary language.

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

4. What is C.'s family like?
(a) Far-flung.
(b) Large.
(c) Standoffish.
(d) Small.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Richard and Harold Plover discuss in section VIII?

2. What kind of trauma did Audrey suffer?

3. What does Lentz recommend Richard teach to Helen?

4. How does Richard see similarities between Lentz's relationship with his wife and his work with the implementations?

5. How does Richard think about his letters to C.?

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