5-Question Learned Quiz — Class 6.2: Reading Right-to-Left: Adjusting Your Eyes

1. According to Class 6.2, what is the real barrier holding brilliant legal minds back when reading computer code?

A) It's not the logic, it's the grammar — code uses a strict structural syntax that law school never trained lawyers to read. B) A lack of logical reasoning ability among lawyers. C) The inability of lawyers to understand conditional clauses.

2. What artistic metaphor does Class 6.2 use to describe a legal engineer designing a contract before hitting 'play' at runtime?

A) A musical composer writing a symphony — mapping out verses, conditions, and looping choruses before the stage performance begins. B) A painter throwing random paint at a canvas. C) A sculptor chiseling stone without a plan.

3. What is 'contract chaining' as defined in Class 6.2?

A) Treating legal agreements like dependent software modules where a broken prerequisite (e.g., payment or indemnity) automatically halts the downstream permission chain at runtime. B) Stapling multiple paper contracts together in a binder. C) Mailing sequential demand letters over several months.

4. What 1980s computer science design principle does Class 6.2 borrow to prevent reinventing the wheel in modular legal engineering?

A) The Unix philosophy — writing small, simple programs that do one thing well and communicate via universal text streams like JSON. B) Mainframe punch-card batch processing. C) Proprietary binary lock-in formats.

5. What is a Ricardian contract (invented by Ian Grigg) as explained in Class 6.2?

A) An agreement that combines conditional legalese alongside programming language so it is both machine-readable for automated runtime and text-readable for human lawyers. B) A verbal handshake agreement with no written record. C) A purely graphical flowchart with no text.

5-Question Learned Quiz — Class 6.2: Reading Right-to-Left: Adjusting Your Eyes