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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 Jean meet with the Federation of Milk Producers?

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

3. Where does Bruno go to study earth science?

4. Where had Platon appeared at an agricultural fair?

5. What profession had Pascal’s father pursued?

Short Essay Questions

1. What prevents Lucien from filming in the Alpilles?

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

3. Why do quinces confuse the narrator?

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

5. Why does the narrator doubt Pascal’s violent intentions?

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

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

8. What does René report radicalized him?

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

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

Overall, what is the most important theme of Creation Lake? What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Kushner’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

Essay Topic 3

In the novel, some characters are given but one name, while others are given first- and surnames, and still others are accorded names and titles. What significance, if any, accrues to patterns of naming in the novel? If no significance accrues, what purpose might be served by the patterns of naming in the novel? How does Creation Lake bear as much out?

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