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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the consequence of C.'s response to Richard's work?

2. When did Richard's relationship with C. end?

3. What did Richard and C. decide when she went back to the Netherlands?

4. Whose influence does Richard talk about over coffee?

5. What does Richard give Philip Lentz as evidence for this assertion?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

To what degree is this book internally consistent? How much does it follow the rules it lays out?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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