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

2. Where did Richard meet C.?
(a) In a class she was teaching.
(b) By chance in a bookstore.
(c) In a class he was teaching.
(d) At a conference where she was speaking.

3. How did Richard and C. handle the cold when they lived together?
(a) By reading stories.
(b) By cooking soups.
(c) By burning manuscript pages.
(d) By making love.

4. How does Diana apologize to Richard?
(a) She buys him a bottle of Scotch.
(b) She invites him to lunch.
(c) She writes him a long note.
(d) She breaks with Lentz.

5. How does Richard describe the pathways in the neural net in back propagation?
(a) As lifelike.
(b) As disciplined.
(c) As variously weighted.
(d) As democratic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Richard taking a position?

2. How does Philip Lentz refer to Richard in their second meeting?

3. For how long were Richard and C. happy together?

4. What mistake does Diana say Philip Lentz is making in his project?

5. Where did Richard live with C.?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is back propagation?

3. What were Richard and C.'s thoughts about having children?

4. Describe the relationship between Philip Lentz and Richard.

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

6. Who is A., and what is Richard's relationship with her?

7. What does Richard say about writing students in general?

8. What limitations does Richard come up against in Helen?

9. Why was the fact of C.'s parents moving to Limburg a crisis for Richard and C.?

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

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