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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section IV (pages 91-119).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Richard do at his office night?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Wander the halls.
(c) Work.
(d) Write.

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

3. What does Richard attempt to do as he settles in to his new home?
(a) Fade into anonymity.
(b) Get straight to work.
(c) Introduce himself to everyone.
(d) Listen to all the gossip around him.

4. How does Philip Lentz refer to Richard in their second meeting?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Dutchman.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Little Marcel.

5. What is Richard having difficulty with in the present moment, in the beginning of section II?
(a) Devising a plot for his next novel.
(b) Remembering things.
(c) Getting paid.
(d) Getting in touch with his editor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did C. begin to feel about Richard's writing?

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

3. What is Richard doing at the beginning of section IV?

4. To what does Diana Hartrick invite Richard?

5. What does Richard say about happiness, after Philip Lentz's experiment?

(see the answer key)

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