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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 car does the narrator rent while in France?

2. How many cubic centimeters does Bruno ascribe to the Neanderthal braincase?

3. Which of the following had the narrator targeted?

4. What is the narrator’s blood type?

5. By which of the following is Lucien tormented?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is a lavoir?

3. How had a megabasin in Limousin been sabotaged?

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

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

6. What bothers the narrator about nature?

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

8. Why does Serge agree to work for Lucien?

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

10. For what is the phrase “reabsorbed into the greater chain of being” (108) a euphemism?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

In the novel, some characters are given but one name, while others are given first- and surnames, and still others are accorded names and titles. What significance, if any, accrues to patterns of naming in the novel? If no significance accrues, what purpose might be served by the patterns of naming in the novel? How does Creation Lake bear as much out?

Essay Topic 3

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

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