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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 does Richard think about after he gets the invitation from Diana Hartrick?

2. What does Richard suggest to Philip Lentz as a result of his conversation with Diana?

3. Where did Richard live with C.?

4. Where is Richard taking a position?

5. Why has this person come to talk to Richard in Section II?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Helen and C. parallel in their relationship with Richard?

2. What work do Richard and Lentz begin together?

3. What is Helen's relationship with music?

4. Why does Helen ultimately shut herself down?

5. What advances does implementation G make after implementation F?

6. What are Philip Lentz and Diana Hartrick discussing when Richard sees them at the campus bar?

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

8. What are Richard's feelings about Diana Hartrick's children?

9. Describe C.'s experience in her certificate program and its effect on her relationship with Richard.

10. What does Richard feel about participating in Lentz's project?

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

When Richard meets Lentz, Lentz is experimenting with machines that can recognize beautiful music, and Helen ultimately requests music and poetry from Richard. Are Richard and Lentz asking the machines to do two different things, or are music and poetry treated as the same project?

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