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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 Platon appeared at an agricultural fair?

2. Which of the following does the narrator see protested in Nebraska?

3. For whom had René worked?

4. From where had Denis and Françoise come to the Moulinards?

5. With which of the following does VI. Get Lucky begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. Per Pascal, why does Bruno part from his erstwhile Marxist associates?

2. Why does the narrator rule out Florence as a potential anti-Pascal actor?

3. What does the novel describe a “screen memory” as being (187)?

4. What does the narrator remark agents do after their infiltrative assignments end?

5. Of what does René’s smell remind the narrator?

6. Why does Platon travel to the Guyenne with minimal staff?

7. How was Bruno’s older brother identified after World War II?

8. Why do the old anglers in Guyenne want to go to Oklahoma to fish?

9. What prevents Lucien from filming in the Alpilles?

10. Why does Bruno’s daughter run the café in Vantôme?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Readerly attention makes much of the narrator’s comment that “Charisma does not originate inside the person called ‘charismatic.’ It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist” (17). Do the novel and experience bear out the comment? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Does the epigraph of Creation Lake do so for the present novel? How or how not?

Essay Topic 3

Similarly, the lengths of sections influence reading. What pattern of subsection-length is present in the novel, if any? What effect does the length of subsections have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?

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