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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 book of the Bible does the narrator reference?

2. What language does the narrator speak?

3. With which of the following does the novel begin?

4. What is the acronym from French riot police?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the narrator justify shoplifting?

3. What bothers the narrator about nature?

4. To what does Bruno ascribe the decline of the Neanderthal?

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

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

7. What does the narrator say about beauty?

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

9. Why is the narrator dismissed from federal service?

10. What effects does the narrator note ape hangers have on riders who use them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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

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