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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section IV (pages 91-119).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the connection in the articles Philip Lentz gives Richard?
(a) Climate change.
(b) Ecological interconnection.
(c) Neural nets.
(d) Destabilization of currencies.

2. How did Richard and C. handle the cold when they lived together?
(a) By burning manuscript pages.
(b) By cooking soups.
(c) By making love.
(d) By reading stories.

3. How does Richard describe the pathways in the neural net in back propagation?
(a) As variously weighted.
(b) As democratic.
(c) As disciplined.
(d) As lifelike.

4. What are Philip Lentz and his friends discussing when Richard joins them?
(a) Whether a person can comprehend the full extent of his or her reading.
(b) What kind of progress remains to be made in astrophysics.
(c) When the global economy will collapse.
(d) Whether a machine could read philosophy.

5. What is Richard working on at this new appointment?
(a) A new book.
(b) Developing a scientific model of consciousness.
(c) Building a robot.
(d) Building a supercomputer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Richard say about happiness, after Philip Lentz's experiment?

2. How does Harold Plover treat Richard at lunch?

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

4. Where was Richard before he moved back to the U.S.?

5. What does Richard say was a mother's consolation prize?

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