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

2. Which of the following does Bruno suggest might be a Neanderthal holdover?

3. What is Lucien *wearing* when the narrator first meets him?

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

5. From which character is the epigraph taken?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lucien do to pay his bills?

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

3. What does the narrator say about beauty?

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

5. To what does Bruno ascribe the persistence of wild-man legends?

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

7. What bothers the narrator about nature?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sources attest to the presence of Creation Lake on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the novel? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

What character is the protagonist of Creation Lake? How does the novel support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 3

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Kushner’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

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