Analogical and Step-Back Prompting Quiz

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1. What does analogical prompting ask the model to do before solving the target problem?
   • Self-generate relevant similar problems and their solutions
   • Translate the problem into another language
   • Count the words in the problem
   • Refuse to answer hard problems
2. What is the first step in Step-Back prompting?
   • Immediately compute the final answer
   • Ask a higher-level abstraction question about the governing principle
   • Generate ten random answers
   • Translate the question
3. A key advantage of analogical prompting over fixed few-shot examples is that:
   • It uses no model at all
   • It always uses exactly one example
   • Its examples are tailored to each specific problem
   • It avoids reasoning entirely
4. Why does grounding an answer in a stated principle (Step-Back) help?
   • It makes the answer longer
   • It hides the question
   • It removes the need for any reasoning
   • It constrains later detailed reasoning and reduces intermediate slips
5. On what kinds of tasks did Step-Back prompting show notable gains?
   • Physics, chemistry, and multi-hop reasoning questions
   • Only image classification
   • Only spell-checking
   • Audio transcription
6. What is a noted risk of analogical prompting?
   • It can only run on phones
   • The self-generated examples may be irrelevant or wrong
   • It requires no prompt
   • It always needs human examples
7. After a Step-Back prompt surfaces a general principle, what does the model do next?
   • Replaces the question with a randomly generated analogy
   • Stops without answering the original question
   • Uses that principle to reason about the original concrete question
   • Fine-tunes its weights on the principle
8. Which task areas are reported for analogical prompting in the cited research?
   • Satellite image segmentation and speech diarization
   • Medical imaging and ship routing
   • Only next-token prediction on unstructured text
   • Math problem solving and code generation