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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Richard worried about after his lunch with Philip Lentz and the others?
(a) Science stagnating.
(b) Imminent political instability.
(c) Economic collapse.
(d) His project failing.

2. What does Philip Lentz say about implementation B?
(a) It needs to write its own programs.
(b) It needs to be able to teach itself how to solve problems.
(c) It needs to find its own energy sources.
(d) It needs to process its processing.

3. How does Harold Plover treat Richard at lunch?
(a) He encourages him.
(b) He insults him.
(c) He confides in him.
(d) He baits him.

4. What happens if information that comes out of back propagation does not match the information put in?
(a) It is used for reprogramming the neural net.
(b) It is corrected.
(c) It is sent through again.
(d) It is discarded.

5. Where did Richard meet C.?
(a) At a conference where she was speaking.
(b) By chance in a bookstore.
(c) In a class he was teaching.
(d) In a class she was teaching.

6. Philip Lentz's tirade make Richard think of _____.
(a) C.
(b) U.
(c) E.
(d) V.

7. What does Richard think about after he gets the invitation from Diana Hartrick?
(a) Going home for dinner.
(b) Making love with Diana Hartrick.
(c) Meeting C.
(d) Making love with C.

8. What does Richard translate Diana's insight into?
(a) A theory of machine emotions.
(b) The imperative to teach the implementations pronunciation.
(c) The concept of symbolic grounding.
(d) Despair about the project.

9. What got Richard this position?
(a) The renown of his Pulitzer Prize.
(b) The notoriety of his most recent book.
(c) The brilliance of his lectures.
(d) A friend with connections.

10. What does C. get in the mail that drags her spirits down?
(a) Rejection letters from schools.
(b) Letters from an old lover.
(c) Letters from her family.
(d) A promotion.

11. What does Diana invite Richard to after chastising him?
(a) A bar.
(b) The theatre.
(c) A walk in the woods.
(d) Dinner.

12. What does Richard decide in response to his discovery that Lentz deceived him?
(a) Not to work on Lentz's project any further.
(b) Never to trust Lentz again.
(c) Not to let Lentz handle money.
(d) To tell the administration at the center about Lentz's deceit.

13. What does time with Diana make Richard think back to about his time with C.?
(a) C. going away to work with another researcher.
(b) C. wanting children.
(c) C. longing for anonymity after his book came out.
(d) C. flirting with another man.

14. What does Richard do at his office night?
(a) Write.
(b) Wander the halls.
(c) Work.
(d) Sleep.

15. Why is Richard upset by his lunch with Philip Lentz and others?
(a) He is terrified by the fragility of the current peace.
(b) He is afraid for the state of modern science.
(c) He cannot forget the hurt feelings felt by the people Lentz insults.
(d) He is concerned that the others' research is overlooking one vital principle.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Richard working on at this new appointment?

3. With what does Philip Lentz want to test implementation B?

4. How does Philip Lentz refer to Richard in their second meeting?

5. On what is Philip Lentz basing his project?

(see the answer keys)

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