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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 make of vehicle does Lucien’s uncle drive?

2. At what institution had the narrator pursued graduate education?

3. What type of human does Bruno note is the first to have used fire?

4. What does the French government introduce to control deer?

5. What label does the novel give to the earliest posited human languages?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does the narrator balk at graffiti?

3. To what does Bruno ascribe the decline of the Neanderthal?

4. Why does the narrator posit Platon’s chauffeur despises him?

5. Why does the narrator claim the occupation she does when she moves in with Lucien?

6. How does the narrator posit that people define justice?

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

8. What is eau-de-vie?

9. What effects does the narrator note ape hangers have on riders who use them?

10. What does the narrator find evoked by Lucien’s posture when she first meets him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Similarly, the lengths of sections influence reading. What pattern of subsection-length is present in the novel, if any? What effect does the length of subsections have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?

Essay Topic 2

Consider Bruno’s emails throughout the novel. What effect do the epistolary interludes have on the narrative? How is the effect achieved?

Essay Topic 3

The narrator makes much of what she does not say to others. What effect does the called-out non-speech have on the narrative? How does that effect emerge?

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