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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section VII (pages 181-210).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Richard say about happiness, after Philip Lentz's experiment?
(a) He thinks that a computer will never know happiness until it can experience alienation.
(b) He does not think a computer will ever know happiness.
(c) He cannot tell whether he was happy in the past.
(d) He knows that he was happy once.

2. What causes Richard to threaten to leave Philip Lentz's project?
(a) Lentz's cynicism.
(b) Problems with its theoretical foundations.
(c) Lentz's drinking.
(d) Lentz's sexism.

3. What does Richard find when he accepts Diana's invitation?
(a) She has children.
(b) She wants to tell him secrets about Philip Lentz.
(c) She wants to spend time with him alone.
(d) She has a crush on him.

4. What did C. begin to feel about Richard's writing?
(a) That it was taking him away from her.
(b) That it was more real than he was.
(c) That it was more important than anything she was doing.
(d) That it was turning her into a character of his.

5. What happened near the time Richard published his first book?
(a) C. received a promotion.
(b) C. heard that her parents were moving.
(c) C. moved back to live with her parents.
(d) C. got pregnant.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was C. different in the Netherlands than she was in the U.S.?

2. What are Philip Lentz and his friends discussing when Richard joins them?

3. What is Richard worried about after his lunch with Philip Lentz and the others?

4. With whom does Richard have an encounter at the end of section IV?

5. Why does C. not join Richard in his plans?

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