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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Richard feel about C.'s coming home in tears?

2. What does Lentz create for implementation F?

3. In what did C. try to get a certificate?

4. What did Richard and C. decide when she went back to the Netherlands?

5. What kind of trauma did Audrey suffer?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Richard meets Lentz, Lentz is experimenting with machines that can recognize beautiful music, and Helen ultimately requests music and poetry from Richard. Are Richard and Lentz asking the machines to do two different things, or are music and poetry treated as the same project?

Essay Topic 2

Why is Lentz driven to cut into Helen, and why is Richard ultimately resigned to allow him to? Why do men have to kill, or at least pry into, the things they create and come to love?

Essay Topic 3

Richard and Helen are both creatures (in addition to the author) who live by making things with words. What are the advantages of creating worlds with words, and what are the disadvantages?

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