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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 the narrator note she would happily live?

2. What is the primary agricultural product of the Moulinard commune?

3. Who is Céline’s wife?

4. What is used to treat Bruno’s lice?

5. What blood type was the Nazi soldier whose corpse Bruno and his friends looted?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does René report radicalized him?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

Essay Topic 2

To what genre other than thriller might Creation Lake be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Section divisions, their titles, and chapter numbering / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the section-numbering and -titling scheme at work in Creation Lake? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the novel supports the paratextual divisions that are in place?

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