Circle the correct item. 1. The main idea of the text was about

1. The main idea of the text was about …

a) Watson the robot

b) learning how to write poetry

c) new technology for computers to translate poems

d) Dmitriy Genzel, a research scientist at Google

2. The following statements are all true about Watson BUT …

a) it is a computer

b) it understands English

c) it competed on Jeopardy

d) it was created by Apple

3. Scientists have created AI programs that understand human speech, but in order to translate poetry, according to the text, a computer must also understand …

a) meter, rhyme, length, and symbolism

b) subliminal messages

c) Shakespearean iambic pentameter

d) the circumstances of the author

4. ‘Incapable of’ means …

a) adept at

b) not able to

c) not talented at

d) very capable of

5. According to the text, one should try to preserve …

a) emotions

b) the sound of human speech

c) historical accuracy

d) contour

6. The hardest thing for the computer to do when translating poetry is …

a) to rhyme words

b) to translate a sonnet

c) to write in iambic pentameter

d) to write a haiku

7. According to Genzel, it is useful to improve translation software because …

a) we can create smarter robots

b) it allows artificial intelligence to compete on Jeopardy

c) most of the Internet is no longer in English and needs translation

d) humans are too lazy to translate with dictionaries

8. According to the text, many web browsers can now…

a) allow you to 'surf the Internet undetected

b) give you tutorials in how to write poetry

c) put web pages in your language

d) teach you foreign languages

9. The text referred to every author EXCEPT…

a) Vladimir Nabokov

b) William Shakespeare

c) Dmitriy Genzel

d) Edgar Allan Poe

10. A more creative name for this text would be…

a) ROBO-POETRY: Poetry Translation and Google

b) Shakespeare's Digital Sonnets

c) Watson's Big Day

d) Genzel: the Man behind the Poetry