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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. What weapon does the narrator keep?

2. What profession had Pascal’s father pursued?

3. In what year did Bruno meet Debord?

4. Which of the following accompanies Platon to Guyenne?

5. Where does Céline flee after the Vichy regime falls?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. In the novel, what is an épicerie?

8. What does the narrator note is the most common utility vehicle in France?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Into what medium would Creation Lake best be adapted? Why that medium?

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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