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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Richard think Helen will never be able to grasp?
(a) Literature.
(b) Relationships.
(c) Human beings.
(d) Subtleties.

2. What do Richard and C. do to relieve the tension in their relationship?
(a) Drink.
(b) Speak with each other only as needed.
(c) Travel.
(d) Make love.

3. What does Richard begin to understand about C. when they live in the Netherlands together?
(a) Her need for family.
(b) His own role as a writer with a strong family.
(c) Her difficulties with American culture.
(d) Her longing for the landscape.

4. What does Lentz tell Richard he is doing with Helen?
(a) Compensating for C.
(b) Falling in love.
(c) Sublimating his losses.
(d) Projecting himself into the machine.

5. What is C.'s family like?
(a) Standoffish.
(b) Far-flung.
(c) Small.
(d) Large.

6. How does Richard think about his letters to C.?
(a) Acts of devotion to her.
(b) Consolation for her losses.
(c) Revenge for her affairs.
(d) Repayment for the stories she told him.

7. How does Richard describe the experiment with Helen to A.?
(a) Brave.
(b) Dangerous.
(c) Enormous.
(d) Noble.

8. What does Richard read to implementation H?
(a) Donne.
(b) Anything he can think of.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Catalogs.

9. What story is Helen able to decipher when Richard reads it to her?
(a) The story of Moses.
(b) "Utopia".
(c) "The Iliad".
(d) "The Emperor's New Clothes".

10. What happened after the success of Richard's book 'Gold Bug'?
(a) He broke off with C.
(b) He and C. became engaged.
(c) He convinced C. to move back to the U.S. with him.
(d) His relationship with C. diminished.

11. What is C's response as Richard buries himself in his work?
(a) She is aloof from him.
(b) She is critical.
(c) She is supportive.
(d) She devotes herself to filling his needs.

12. What does Richard teach Helen to do?
(a) Categorize poems.
(b) Feel a poem.
(c) Sing.
(d) Create images from poems.

13. When did Richard's relationship with C. end?
(a) When she became pregnant by another man.
(b) When she had her baby.
(c) When she found out that she could not have a baby with Richard.
(d) When she found out that she was not in fact pregnant.

14. What does Richard's work do for C.?
(a) Describes her to herself.
(b) Gives her a world in which to live.
(c) Gives her an excuse to feel affection for things.
(d) Shows her things about the world.

15. How does Richard crash implementation E?
(a) By asking it two questions at once.
(b) By asking contradictory questions.
(c) None of the answers is correct.
(d) By asking what it wants to talk about.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Helen ask Richard?

2. What is the consequence of C.'s response to Richard's work?

3. What does Helen need to do, in order to win the contest?

4. What does Helen make Richard see about consciousness?

5. What does Lentz recommend Richard teach to Helen?

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