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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. What is Richard's response when he finds out that Philip Lentz has been deceiving him?

3. What change does Philip Lentz make in implementation B?

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

5. Where does Richard move to, at the beginning of "Galatea 2.2"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe Richard's circumstances when he first met C.

5. What were Richard and C.'s thoughts about having children?

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

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

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

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

10. What has Lentz accomplished by the time he builds implementation F?

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

How are Richard's and Helen's experiences parallel, insofar as Richard struggled with Dutch, and struggled to find a language he and C. could speak together in their relationship, and Helen struggles to generate analysis of literature? How are they similar? How are they different?

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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