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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 do scientists find Neanderthals captured?

2. Which of the following grows in the churchyard at Vantôme?

3. With which of the following does VI. Get Lucky begin?

4. Where does the narrator shop for supplies?

5. What is the name of Bruno’s daughter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does René report radicalized him?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is the novel’s overall impression of humanity? What in the text indicates as much, and how does it do so?

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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