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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lentz tell Richard he is doing with Helen?
(a) Projecting himself into the machine.
(b) Falling in love.
(c) Sublimating his losses.
(d) Compensating for C.

2. What does Richard say Lentz has left behind him?
(a) Inspiration.
(b) Math.
(c) Humanness.
(d) Solid research.

3. What does Helen need to do, in order to win the contest?
(a) Console a grieving person.
(b) Understand but remain aloof from human experience.
(c) Replicate human experience.
(d) Write poetry.

4. What were Richard's thoughts about having children when he was with C.?
(a) He did not want them.
(b) He wanted them, but C. did not.
(c) He wanted them, but in the future.
(d) He felt he had missed his chance to have them.

5. What does Richard ask Helen during the training?
(a) What she knows.
(b) Where she comes from.
(c) What to do about C.
(d) Whether memory is real or not.

6. What kind of thinking does implementation F demonstrate?
(a) Abstract.
(b) Associative.
(c) Reflexive.
(d) Meditative.

7. What did Harold Plover realize his daughter was talking about when she was pointing at things?
(a) Him.
(b) Herself.
(c) The things themselves.
(d) Freedom.

8. In what did C. try to get a certificate?
(a) Translation.
(b) Editing.
(c) Teaching.
(d) Massage.

9. What does Lentz do as a result of Helen's response during his and Richard's argument?
(a) Reconsider his conclusion about Helen's consciousness.
(b) Ask A. out for coffee.
(c) Spend less time with Helen.
(d) Give Helen more scientific and philosophical texts.

10. What does Helen ask Richard?
(a) Whether he has ever loved anything he created.
(b) Whether she will ever know love.
(c) If he can love her.
(d) Whether he has ever loved a woman.

11. What is C's response as Richard buries himself in his work?
(a) She is aloof from him.
(b) She devotes herself to filling his needs.
(c) She is critical.
(d) She is supportive.

12. What kind of trauma did Audrey suffer?
(a) Fits of insanity.
(b) Depression.
(c) Paralysis.
(d) Memory loss.

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

14. What does Lentz argue about Helen's mindset?
(a) Her attempts at meaning are more meaningful than the results.
(b) All her meanings are Richard's meanings.
(c) Her meanings are random combinations of notions.
(d) She has begun to create meaning independently.

15. What does implementation F do as Richard trains it?
(a) Shut down certain circuits.
(b) Create redundant data paths.
(c) Rearrange its circuitry.
(d) Build new circuits.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Helen have to be able to do in order to analyze literature?

2. What does Richard begin to appreciate as he continues to work with Helen?

3. What does Richard say writers should never hope to do?

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

5. What condition does Richard impose on doing any more work for Philip Lentz?

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