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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 is the name of Lucien’s antagonistic aunt?

2. What did Bruno’s son study?

3. On what highway does the narrator approach the lodgings she has from Lucien?

4. Which of the following does the novel note is called the Hobbit?

5. What does the narrator order to drink when she first meets Lucien?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a lavoir?

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

3. How does the narrator posit that people define justice?

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

5. What does the narrator find evoked by Lucien’s posture when she first meets him?

6. What bothers the narrator about nature?

7. What is eau-de-vie?

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

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

10. What does the narrator say about beauty?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Section divisions, their titles, and chapter numbering / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the section-numbering and -titling scheme at work in Creation Lake? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the novel supports the paratextual divisions that are in place?

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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