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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. From what make and model of car does the narrator hear “Lemon Incest”?

2. In what year had Pascal been in New York City?

3. With which of the following does IV. Lemon Incest begin?

4. From where had Denis and Françoise come to the Moulinards?

5. What does the narrator claim is her favorite Italian film?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do quinces confuse the narrator?

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

3. What does René report radicalized him?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Consider the ending of the novel. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

Conversely, given demonstrated efforts toward censorship in a number of countries, what would likely prompt bans of Creation Lake? By which groups? Why?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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