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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. Why does Richard not take the position he is offered?
(a) He has to stay with his sick mother.
(b) He wants to explore other options.
(c) He wants to travel.
(d) He wants to stay with C.

2. Why does C. not join Richard in his plans?
(a) She does not trust him.
(b) She does not have enough money to come with him.
(c) She just was accepted into a graduate program.
(d) She is involved with someone.

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

4. What is the connection in the articles Philip Lentz gives Richard?
(a) Ecological interconnection.
(b) Climate change.
(c) Neural nets.
(d) Destabilization of currencies.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Richard meet C.?

2. Where does Richard move to, at the beginning of "Galatea 2.2"?

3. How does Philip Lentz refer to the location where Richard lived before coming to this location?

4. What does Richard see in the photograph of Philip Lentz and his wife?

5. What does Richard think about after the scene of Philip Lentz's experiment?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Richard begin to see his relationship with C. now that he has space from it?

2. What were Richard's thoughts about getting married when he was with C.?

3. What is Lentz's success with implementation A and implementation B?

4. What is Richard's reaction as he starts to spend time on Lentz's project?

5. Why does Helen ultimately shut herself down?

6. What story does Harold Plover tell Richard about his daughters' language acquisition?

7. What does Richard think about the lecture Lentz gives?

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

9. Describe Richard's circumstances when he first met C.

10. What is the setting of "Galatea 2.2"?

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