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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Richard feel about C.'s coming home in tears?
(a) The phase will pass.
(b) The tears are necessary in this kind of experience.
(c) She should toughen up.
(d) It is his fault.

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

3. What did Richard's letters to C. contain?
(a) Declarations of love.
(b) Details of his affairs.
(c) Criticisms of her work.
(d) Memories of their time together.

4. What does Richard fantasize about while training Helen?
(a) Getting a surprise visit from C.
(b) Meeting Helen in human form.
(c) Writing to C.
(d) Meeting with A.

5. Whom does Richard invite out for coffee?
(a) A.
(b) Harold Plover.
(c) C.
(d) Harold Plover's daughter Mina.

6. What does Lentz create for implementation F?
(a) A new algorithm to increase the number of connections in the neural net.
(b) A new procedure for building future implementations.
(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.

7. What does Richard's work do for C.?
(a) Gives her an excuse to feel affection for things.
(b) Shows her things about the world.
(c) Describes her to herself.
(d) Gives her a world in which to live.

8. What is Helen's favorite poem?
(a) 'Evening Hymn'.
(b) 'Because I would not stop for death'.
(c) 'The Most of It'.
(d) 'Poison Tree'.

9. What does Richard realize Helen is able to distinguish?
(a) Allusions.
(b) Other people in the room.
(c) References to current events.
(d) Echoes and associations.

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

11. Though he finds it easier to talk to Helen, whom does Richard want to talk to instead?
(a) C.
(b) Lentz.
(c) A.
(d) Diana.

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

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

14. What kind of accident led the condition of Lentz's wife?
(a) A cardiovascular accident.
(b) A skiing accident.
(c) A car accident.
(d) A mountaineering accident.

15. What insight does Richard make about writers?
(a) They have all wanted to possess their mothers.
(b) They have all wanted to murder their fathers.
(c) They have all disappointed their fathers.
(d) They have all created imaginary siblings for themselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Richard ask Helen during the training?

2. What kind of thinking does implementation F demonstrate?

3. What story is Helen able to decipher when Richard reads it to her?

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

5. What is C's response as Richard buries himself in his work?

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