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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. What are Philip Lentz and his friends discussing when Richard joins them?
2. How long was Richard with C.?
3. What is Richard having difficulty with in the present moment, in the beginning of section II?
4. Why does Richard not take the position he is offered?
5. Which literary term describes the story about C.?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the difference between Richard and C.'s letters to each other when C. goes to Europe ahead of Richard.
2. How do Richard and Lentz differ in their approaches to the project?
3. What does Richard feel about himself and about his writing while Lentz is redesigning implementation B?
4. What are Philip Lentz and Diana Hartrick discussing when Richard sees them at the campus bar?
5. What are Richard's feelings about Diana Hartrick's children?
6. Why does Helen ultimately shut herself down?
7. How does Richard think about the stories he wrote while he was with C.?
8. What does Richard begin to use in training implementation B?
9. What leads Helen to say that she does not "want to play anymore"?
10. What changes with implementation H?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Richard and Helen are both creatures (in addition to the author) who live by making things with words. What are the advantages of creating worlds with words, and what are the disadvantages?
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
Richard spends a great deal of time pouring literature into Helen's memory, at the same time that he pours C. out of his own memory. How does memory work in "Galatea 2.2"? Is it a source of strength, or of suffering? How important is the desire to forget, for Richard and for Helen?
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