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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. To which of the following is the novel dedicated?

2. What feature of Neanderthal physiology is described as a sunk cost?

3. Which of the following does the narrator note hearing as she and Lucien are driven to a hotel?

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

5. In what village had earth-moving equipment been sabotaged?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the narrator and Vito get along?

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

3. What does the narrator note is the fate of those alongside whom she had pursued graduate schooling?

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

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

6. What does Bruno posit is the root cause of depression?

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

8. What does Lucien do to pay his bills?

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

10. How had a megabasin in Limousin been sabotaged?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Overall, what is the most important theme of Creation Lake? What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Assuming that Creation Lake should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

What is the novel’s overall impression of humanity? What in the text indicates as much, and how does it do so?

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