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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 does the narrator deliver to Nadia?

2. What weapon does the narrator have for others’ use?

3. Which of the following does the narrator see protested in Switzerland?

4. What year’s baby picture of Debord does the narrator note seeing?

5. On which of the following does the narrator remark a biker relies?

Short Essay Questions

1. What prevents Lucien from filming in the Alpilles?

2. Why does Lucien posit there are stickers posted in the lodgings the narrator occupies?

3. How does the novel describe emotional labor (246)?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. In the novel, what is an épicerie?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Conversely, given demonstrated efforts toward censorship in a number of countries, what would likely prompt bans of Creation Lake? By which groups? Why?

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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