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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 note a dairy breeder committed suicide?

2. How many years older than him was Bruno’s older brother?

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

4. Which of the following appellations does the narrator assign to Lucien’s uncle?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What prevents Lucien from filming in the Alpilles?

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

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

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

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

Consider Bruno’s emails throughout the novel. What effect do the epistolary interludes have on the narrative? How is the effect achieved?

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