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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Diana apologize to Richard?

2. How does Philip Lentz respond when Diana Hartrick challenges him?

3. What does Richard conclude about Lentz's feelings about working together?

4. What did Richard say he got from C.?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is back propagation?

2. What does Richard begin to use in training implementation B?

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

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

5. What work do Richard and Lentz begin together?

6. What were Richard's first few months in the Netherlands like with C.?

7. What debate do Richard and Lentz have over Helen in the beginning of section X?

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

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

10. What is C.'s relationship with Richard's work while he is in the Netherlands?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Helen shuts herself down in defiance of a world she does not feel at home in. Is "Galatea 2.2" a book about being out of one's element? How is this feeling presented throughout the novel, and what possible antidotes are there for it?

Essay Topic 2

What precedent does Helen's suicide have in the book? How has death been treated, and how is the machine's death similar to and different from other deaths we have seen?

Essay Topic 3

Why is Lentz driven to cut into Helen, and why is Richard ultimately resigned to allow him to? Why do men have to kill, or at least pry into, the things they create and come to love?

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