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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. Which of the following had been sabotaged near Guyenne?

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

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

4. In what city does the narrator first meet Lucien?

5. What is the name of Lucien’s uncle?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the narrator justify shoplifting?

3. What does the narrator note is the trick of riding backwards?

4. What does the narrator say about beauty?

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

6. Why does the narrator sleep well on her first night lodging near the Moulinards?

7. What reasons does the narrator posit for Bruno keeping his fires small?

8. What bothers the narrator about nature?

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

10. What is a lavoir?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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?

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