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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 is stung by jellyfish?

2. From which character is the epigraph taken?

3. Towards which of the following does the narrator attempt to navigate?

4. Which of the following is Debord given by his brother-in-law?

5. Which of the following does Lucien point out to the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the narrator determine Platon has a temper?

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

4. Why does Serge agree to work for Lucien?

5. What is a lavoir?

6. Why does the narrator prefer listening to older men to listening to younger men?

7. Why do the narrator and Vito get along?

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

9. What bothers the narrator about nature?

10. How had a megabasin in Limousin been sabotaged?

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

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 3

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

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