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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Richard say Lentz has left behind him?
2. What does Richard begin to understand about C. when they live in the Netherlands together?
3. What does Richard attend in Section VII?
4. What is the consequence of C.'s response to Richard's work?
5. What does Richard tell Philip Lentz about Helen in section X?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Helen ultimately shuts herself down because she is not adjusted to the real world, just the world of literature and Richard's personality. To what extent is this an allegory for machines and even for modern human culture? Are people today in the same position as Helen?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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