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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Richard see in the photograph of Philip Lentz and his wife?
(a) Torment.
(b) Worry.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Profound love.

2. For how long were Richard and C. happy together?
(a) Six months.
(b) Seven years.
(c) Two years.
(d) Ten years.

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

4. Where was Richard before he moved back to the U.S.?
(a) The Netherlands.
(b) Russia.
(c) China.
(d) England.

5. Where does Richard try to draw stories out of people?
(a) Phone calls to his friends.
(b) A local bar.
(c) Lectures at the center.
(d) The supermarket.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Richard say he is afraid?

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

3. What does Richard say was a mother's consolation prize?

4. Who is Ram Gupta?

5. When does Richard recall parting with C.?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has Lentz accomplished by the time he builds implementation F?

2. How are Helen and C. parallel in their relationship with Richard?

3. What does Richard see in Lentz's office?

4. How does Richard think about the stories he wrote while he was with C.?

5. What does Helen's interpretation of 'A Poison Tree' lead Richard to think?

6. Who is the main character, and what is he doing as the book begins?

7. What does Diana Hartrick tell Richard at lunch?

8. What leads Helen to say that she does not "want to play anymore"?

9. What are Richard's thoughts about letting Lentz 'cut into' Helen?

10. Describe Richard's dinner with Diana Hartrick.

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