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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 is implementation A?
(a) A recording device for unheard sounds.
(b) A robot.
(c) A tool for analyzing consciousness.
(d) A machine that can be conditioned.

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

3. With whom does Richard have an encounter at the end of section IV?
(a) C.
(b) Philip Lentz.
(c) A.
(d) Implementation B.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Richard describe his relationship with C.?

2. Where was Richard before he moved back to the U.S.?

3. Why does Richard not take the position he is offered?

4. What did C. feel when her family told her that they were moving?

5. To what does Richard compare implementation A?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe Richard's progress on his new book.

5. What breakthrough does Helen make when she analyzes love poems?

6. What does Richard receive in the mail in the beginning of section II?

7. What made C. appealing to Richard when he met her?

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

9. What does Richard feel about himself and about his writing while Lentz is redesigning implementation B?

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

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