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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section IX (pages 241-273).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the downside of Richard's work in C.'s experience?
(a) She forgets her own language.
(b) She comes to mistake his characters' lives for her own.
(c) She loses her connection to the real world.
(d) She speaks in artificial literary language.

2. What got Richard this position?
(a) The brilliance of his lectures.
(b) A friend with connections.
(c) The renown of his Pulitzer Prize.
(d) The notoriety of his most recent book.

3. What does Philip Lentz lead Richard to believe?
(a) That C. was trying to get in touch with him.
(b) That he was giving Richard credit for implementation C's advances.
(c) That implementation C had made huge strides.
(d) That implementation B was a failure.

4. What causes Richard to come home in tears?
(a) Sadness over the imminent breakup with C.
(b) Frustration with the Dutch language.
(c) Desire for marriage with C.
(d) Nostalgia for the U.S.

5. What does Helen conclude from reading William Blake's 'Poison Tree'?
(a) Life can be reduced to black and white decisions.
(b) Life is a gray area between absolutes.
(c) Man has created fictional absolutes to live by.
(d) Writing is its own form of artificial intelligence.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Richard refer to Philip Lentz in their second meeting?

2. What condition does Richard impose on doing any more work for Philip Lentz?

3. What does Helen need to do, in order to win the contest?

4. Who is Ram Gupta?

5. Whom does Richard end up talking with, mostly?

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