AI Agents and College Search: Building Your Own Application Bot

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1. Which sentence best captures the main idea of 'AI Agents and College Search: Building Your Own Application Bot'?

   1. How AI agents can help juniors and seniors track colleges, deadlines, and essay drafts.
   2. Agents and chatbots are the same thing in every way
   3. Tools and goals are unnecessary for agent design
   4. Agents should always run without limits or oversight

2. Which of the following is part of 'Some examples'?

   1. Always run with no oversight
   2. Use the most expensive model regardless of fit
   3. Agent tracks every deadline in one calendar.
   4. Avoid taking any actions in the world

3. Which of the following is part of 'The rule'?

   1. Disable safety checks for speed
   2. Use the most expensive model regardless of fit
   3. Never log what the agent did
   4. Agents handle logistics; your voice writes the essays.

4. Which of the following is part of 'You did it!'?

   1. Run unbounded retries on any error
   2. You just made the college search a lot less scary.
   3. Ignore cost when scaling
   4. Avoid taking any actions in the world

5. What is 'college apps' in this context?

   1. A trick to bypass approvals
   2. A core concept covered in AI Agents and College Search: Building Your Own Application Bot
   3. A reason to skip all logging
   4. A way to disable the agent's tools

6. What is 'tracking' in this context?

   1. A trick to bypass approvals
   2. A core concept covered in AI Agents and College Search: Building Your Own Application Bot
   3. A reason to skip all logging
   4. A way to disable the agent's tools

7. What is 'essays' in this context?

   1. A way to disable the agent's tools
   2. A trick to bypass approvals
   3. A core concept covered in AI Agents and College Search: Building Your Own Application Bot
   4. A reason to skip all logging

8. What is the right role for an agent in a college search?

   1. Gather, organize, and compare information so you can make the call
   2. Hide schools it does not like
   3. Apply on your behalf without telling you
   4. Decide which school you should attend

9. What is the safest first place to deploy a brand new agent?

   1. On a public server with no auth
   2. Production, against real customers
   3. A sandbox or low-stakes task with reversible actions
   4. Inside a critical billing system

10. An agent that costs $0.04 per task on average will run 10,000 times this month. Roughly what should you budget?

    1. About $4
    2. About $400
    3. About $40
    4. About $4,000

11. What does an 'eval' for an agent measure?

    1. The temperature setting
    2. The exact wording of every prompt
    3. How polite the model sounds
    4. Whether the agent reliably completes a defined task end to end

12. An agent quietly retries a failed payment 50 times overnight. What design principle was missing?

    1. More creative prompting
    2. A bigger context window
    3. A larger model
    4. Bounded retries with human notification on repeated failure

13. Which signal best tells you an agent is stuck in a runaway loop?

    1. It returns a short summary and stops
    2. It keeps repeating the same tool call with no new progress
    3. It finishes the task in one step
    4. It asks one clarifying question

14. Why is it dangerous to give an agent access to your email and calendar without scoped permissions?

    1. Scoped permissions slow the model down
    2. Scopes only matter for paid accounts
    3. It will refuse to work
    4. Broad access means a single misstep can send the wrong message or wipe events

15. What is the best response when an agent suggests an action you do not understand?

    1. Run it twice to be sure
    2. Reject everything and stop using the agent
    3. Ask the agent to explain the action and its expected effect before approving
    4. Approve it to keep things moving