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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 letter does the narrator note marks her as American?

2. From which play is the epigraph taken?

3. Which of the following had the narrator targeted?

4. In what Brooklyn neighborhood had the narrator worked?

5. In what year was Bruno’s younger daughter born?

Short Essay Questions

1. On what mission does the narrator first encounter Priest Valley?

2. What is eau-de-vie?

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

4. How had a megabasin in Limousin been sabotaged?

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

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

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

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

9. What does Lucien do to pay his bills?

10. How does the narrator justify shoplifting?

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

Into what medium would Creation Lake best be adapted? Why that medium?

Essay Topic 3

Overall, what is the most important theme of Creation Lake? What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

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