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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section XI (pages 301-329).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Richard recall parting with C.?
(a) At the end of the fall semester.
(b) At the end of the winter term.
(c) After Christmas.
(d) At the end of the summer.

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

3. Why does Helen shut down in the end?
(a) In defiance of a world in which she does not feel at home.
(b) In desperation for never having an equal to love.
(c) In frustration with the impossibility of ever having experiences like the experiences she processes and analyzes.
(d) In solidarity with other machines that do not have consciousness.

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

5. Who convinces Lentz not to undertake his study?
(a) C.
(b) Richard.
(c) Harold Plover.
(d) Diana.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Philip Lentz call in to watch his experiment with implementation B?

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

3. How does Richard describe the experiment with Helen to A.?

4. What was the lovemaking like at the end of Richard's relationship with C.?

5. What does Richard translate Diana's insight into?

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