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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 see protested in Switzerland?

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

3. For whom had René worked?

4. Which of the following had failed as an undercover agent because of serial romances?

5. Where does Vito attend a conference on Jung?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What critique do Denis and Françoise have of the Moulinards?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Assuming that Creation Lake should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests 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

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

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