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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. How many Euros per day does the narrator’s rental car cost?

2. What language does the narrator speak?

3. How many attempts to guess Bruno’s email password does the narrator require to succeed?

4. What weather afflicts the narrator as she accompanies Lucien in filming?

5. Which of the following does Pascal claim the Moulinards plant?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the narrator note being happy to be courted by Lucien?

2. What does the narrator posit is the downside of having quick reflexes?

3. How had a megabasin in Limousin been sabotaged?

4. What bothers the narrator about nature?

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

6. How does Bruno characterize the myth of Prometheus and Epimetheus?

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

8. Why is the narrator dismissed from federal service?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How reliable is the narrator of the novel? What in the text indicates that reliability, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Consider the ending of the novel. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

Essay Topic 3

Section divisions, their titles, and chapter numbering / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the section-numbering and -titling scheme at work in Creation Lake? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the novel supports the paratextual divisions that are in place?

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