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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section VIII (pages 211-240).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Philip Lentz and his friends discussing when Richard joins them?
(a) Whether a person can comprehend the full extent of his or her reading.
(b) What kind of progress remains to be made in astrophysics.
(c) When the global economy will collapse.
(d) Whether a machine could read philosophy.

2. What does Richard say was a mother's consolation prize?
(a) C's birth.
(b) U's education.
(c) E's emigration to the U.S.
(d) V's marriage.

3. What does Richard think about after he gets the invitation from Diana Hartrick?
(a) Going home for dinner.
(b) Making love with C.
(c) Making love with Diana Hartrick.
(d) Meeting C.

4. 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 speaks in artificial literary language.
(d) She loses her connection to the real world.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Richard crash implementation E?

2. What did C's letters to Richard contain?

3. What does Richard think about Diana's part in Philip Lentz's work?

4. What does C. get in the mail that drags her spirits down?

5. What does implementation F do as Richard trains it?

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