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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. Upon what supermarket does the narrator remark?

2. What letter does the narrator note marks her as American?

3. What is the most common blood type in Japan, per the novel?

4. Where had Lucien’s first intimate partner attended college?

5. In what year is Debord a problem for the French government?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator regard having a good accent?

2. What bothers the narrator about nature?

3. How does Bruno posit that the Neanderthals first used tobacco?

4. Why do the narrator and Vito get along?

5. What does Bruno note is the distinction between modern humans’ early art and that of the Neanderthal?

6. To what does Bruno ascribe the persistence of wild-man legends?

7. What does Bruno note is the purpose of the Neanderthal large face?

8. What is a lavoir?

9. To what does the narrator ascribe Bruno’s use of italics?

10. How does the narrator determine Platon has a temper?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what genre other than thriller might Creation Lake be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Sources attest to the presence of Creation Lake on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the novel? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Into what medium would Creation Lake best be adapted? Why that medium?

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