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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it that bothers Richard about Philip Lentz's deception?
(a) That he has so little going for himself that he has become a character in Lentz' research.
(b) That Lentz took Diana away from him.
(c) That he, Richard, cares so much about the project.
(d) That he ever let Lentz close to him.

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

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

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

5. Why has this person come to talk to Richard in Section II?
(a) To sooth his loneliness.
(b) To put Philip Lentz in his place.
(c) To enlist him in arguing against Philip Lentz.
(d) To support Philip Lentz's theories.

6. Of what does Richard say he is afraid?
(a) Wasting his opportunities.
(b) Realizing his dreams.
(c) Failing in his writing.
(d) Losing his savings.

7. What draws Richard to Philip Lentz's office?
(a) Mozart music.
(b) Loud conversation.
(c) Groaning.
(d) He hears John Donne's poetry.

8. Philip Lentz's tirade make Richard think of _____.
(a) U.
(b) E.
(c) V.
(d) C.

9. About what does Diana chastise Richard?
(a) Smoking too much.
(b) Drinking too much.
(c) Not sleeping.
(d) Not eating.

10. What did Richard realize when C. heard that her parents were moving?
(a) That she was dying.
(b) That he loved her more than he had ever loved anyone.
(c) That he did not know her well.
(d) That she had a history she had hidden from him.

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

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

13. What did Richard and C. have to furnish their apartment?
(a) Expensive new furniture.
(b) Dilapidated furniture.
(c) Inherited furniture.
(d) Used furniture.

14. What got Richard this position?
(a) The renown of his Pulitzer Prize.
(b) The brilliance of his lectures.
(c) The notoriety of his most recent book.
(d) A friend with connections.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does Philip Lentz want to test implementation B?

2. Where is Richard taking a position?

3. What does Philip Lentz lead Richard to believe?

4. Where does Richard try to draw stories out of people?

5. How did Richard and C. handle the cold when they lived together?

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