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So far I have this fugue right. Right?????


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Again, if you're going for Bach, no. It also doesn't follow a lot of the Baroque voice leading rules, but if it's not Baroque then don't worry about it. 
You could argue it's a diatonic fugue, but a standard tonal fugue would have your answer actually in the key of the dominant (F∆) (occasionally subdominant i.e. Bach Tocatta/Fugue), instead of a transposed version with the intervals changed. The fact that your third entrance is the same as the second is also a little strange. 

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Kinda sorta. The real answer is used a lot in Baroque writing (Bach's most famous fugues use real answers), but they're honestly just different ways of doing fugues. As long as the rules are followed, there's no "better" way etc. My focus is on Renaissance counterpoint more than Baroque/Classical counterpoint, so I'm definitely not an infinite resource on the subject. 😊

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About real/tonal answers: In fact Bach did use tonal answers very often, 16 of 24 fugues in WTC 1 have tonal answers, in The Art of Fugue every simple fugue have tonal answer.

About your fugue: I think the subject would be better if the third note was "a" not "b flat". Also watch out the parallel octaves at the beginning of measure 3 and 5 (S and B), and parallel fifths in beginning of 4. Voice leading means to watch the intervals between voices, for example you have to avoid ninths and sevenths in two-part counterpoint (see measures 4 second half of beat 3). But I agree with Monarcheon, the way you did the answers is a little strange. The second entry of subject could be a great real answer in subdominant, I think

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