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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lentz tell Richard he is doing with Helen?

2. What did Harold Plover realize his daughter was talking about when she was pointing at things?

3. What is Helen's reaction to A.?

4. What does Helen make Richard see about consciousness?

5. What does Richard say he was trying to live with C.?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Does Lentz become a replacement for C.? How does Lentz call out the same struggles and aspects of Richard's personality that had been called out in Richard's relationship with C.? Alternatively, does Helen become a replacement for C. and how does "she" call out the same struggles Richard had been engaged in with C.?

Essay Topic 2

How are Richard's and Helen's experiences parallel, insofar as Richard struggled with Dutch, and struggled to find a language he and C. could speak together in their relationship, and Helen struggles to generate analysis of literature? How are they similar? How are they different?

Essay Topic 3

What precedent does Helen's suicide have in the book? How has death been treated, and how is the machine's death similar to and different from other deaths we have seen?

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