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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. With whom does Richard have an encounter at the end of section IV?

2. What does Richard say about the machine Philip Lentz built?

3. What causes Richard to threaten to leave Philip Lentz's project?

4. What is the first step in back propagation?

5. On what is Philip Lentz basing his project?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe Richard's dinner with Diana Hartrick.

4. What changes with implementation H?

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

6. What is back propagation?

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

8. Describe the difference between Richard and C.'s letters to each other when C. goes to Europe ahead of Richard.

9. What does Richard remember about meeting C., in section II?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Does Lentz become a replacement for C.? How does Lentz call out the same struggles and aspects of Richard's personality that had been called out in Richard's relationship with C.? Alternatively, does Helen become a replacement for C. and how does "she" call out the same struggles Richard had been engaged in with C.?

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

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?

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