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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 does Bruno go to study earth science?

2. How does the novel gloss the term “kireru”?

3. Which French novelist does the narrator commend?

4. With which of the following does IV. Lemon Incest begin?

5. Which of the following do scientists find Neanderthals captured?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Pascal’s appearance when the narrator meets him differ from her expectations?

2. Why is the narrator permitted to disagree with the intellectuals among the Moulinards?

3. Why, per Bruno, is there resistance to the idea of Neanderthal fishing?

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

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

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

7. Why does the narrator voice skepticism of the commune to Pascal?

8. What is the subversive action the Moulinards plan at the agricultural festival?

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

10. Why had authorities suspected Pascal was in New York City?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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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