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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the downside of Richard's work in C.'s experience?
(a) She speaks in artificial literary language.
(b) She forgets her own language.
(c) She loses her connection to the real world.
(d) She comes to mistake his characters' lives for her own.

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

3. What does Diana tell Richard about having read?
(a) Theoretical works about robot consciousness.
(b) Articles on neural activity.
(c) Technical reviews of Lentz's work.
(d) His book.

4. What does Richard say he was trying to live with C.?
(a) Improvised love.
(b) Traditional marriage.
(c) Contingent love.
(d) Open marriage.

5. What is Richard's role in Philip Lentz's project?
(a) Designing.
(b) Training.
(c) Promoting.
(d) Programming.

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

7. What does Richard think Helen will never be able to grasp?
(a) Relationships.
(b) Subtleties.
(c) Human beings.
(d) Literature.

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

9. What does Richard teach Helen?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Literature.
(c) Science.
(d) Physics.

10. What does Philip Lentz design into implementation F to let it think recursively?
(a) Access to more texts.
(b) A rule structure.
(c) Access to images.
(d) New circuitry.

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

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

13. What did C's letters to Richard contain?
(a) Recipes from home.
(b) Stories from her mother.
(c) Insights into his books.
(d) Details about her affairs.

14. Why did Richard fall in love with C.?
(a) Her ability to console him.
(b) Her strength of character.
(c) Her vulnerability.
(d) Her visions.

15. Where does Lentz take Richard?
(a) The long-term care facility where his wife lives.
(b) The cemetery where his wife is buried.
(c) The mental hospital where his wife lives.
(d) The house where his wife lives with another man.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What were Richard's thoughts about having children when he was with C.?

3. What does Richard feel about C.'s coming home in tears?

4. Where did Richard and C. live in the Netherlands?

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

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