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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Richard say about the machine Philip Lentz built?
(a) It contained the immense distances of open space.
(b) Lentz was training it to recognize beauty.
(c) It recognizes him when he returns to the room.
(d) It replicates consciousness.

2. How long was Richard with C.?
(a) 4 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 22 years.

3. What does C. get in the mail that drags her spirits down?
(a) Rejection letters from schools.
(b) Letters from her family.
(c) A promotion.
(d) Letters from an old lover.

4. What did Richard say he got from C.?
(a) Inspiration.
(b) Emotional support.
(c) Money.
(d) Material for his novels.

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 in touch with his editor.
(d) Getting paid.

6. What does Richard decide in response to his discovery that Lentz deceived him?
(a) Never to trust Lentz again.
(b) Not to let Lentz handle money.
(c) Not to work on Lentz's project any further.
(d) To tell the administration at the center about Lentz's deceit.

7. When does Richard recall parting with C.?
(a) At the end of the summer.
(b) At the end of the winter term.
(c) At the end of the fall semester.
(d) After Christmas.

8. What does Richard think about Diana's part in Philip Lentz's work?
(a) He suspects that she is doing all the hard work for Lentz.
(b) He is saddened to see Diana put up with Lentz's rough personality.
(c) He feels betrayed by her duplicity.
(d) He is delighted for the opportunity Diana has.

9. What does Richard find when he accepts Diana's invitation?
(a) She wants to spend time with him alone.
(b) She wants to tell him secrets about Philip Lentz.
(c) She has children.
(d) She has a crush on him.

10. What does time with Diana make Richard think back to about his time with C.?
(a) C. flirting with another man.
(b) C. longing for anonymity after his book came out.
(c) C. wanting children.
(d) C. going away to work with another researcher.

11. How does Philip Lentz refer to the location where Richard lived before coming to this location?
(a) A powerful intellectual center.
(b) An obscure colony.
(c) A negligible nation.
(d) The center of the world.

12. What did C. feel when her family told her that they were moving?
(a) Liberation.
(b) Sorrow.
(c) Guilt.
(d) Delight.

13. On what is Philip Lentz basing his project?
(a) The functions of the human mind.
(b) Evolutionary mechanisms of survival.
(c) Naturally-occurring architectural structures.
(d) Astronomical distances.

14. What was Richard admitted to after he parted with C.?
(a) A think tank.
(b) A research position.
(c) A Ph.D. program.
(d) A teaching job.

15. Which literary term describes the story about C.?
(a) Foreshadowing.
(b) Back-story.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Symbolism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why has this person come to talk to Richard in Section II?

2. What got Richard this position?

3. Philip Lentz's tirade make Richard think of _____.

4. What does Philip Lentz say about implementation B?

5. What did Richard and C. have to furnish their apartment?

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