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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. How does John describe his memory of the night of the boiling water?
2. Who does John call after talking with Claude Rasmussen?
3. What has just taken place when In the Lake of the Woods begins?
4. Why is it important that we know Kathy's physical measurements?
5. How would you describe Eleanor Wade's contributions to Chapter 2?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does John tell Kathy in his letters from Vietnam?
2. How does the narrator describe Kathy's feelings in the hypothesis in Chapter 9?
3. Describe John's relationship with his father.
4. What do Arthur Lux and Vinny Pearson think happened to Kathy?
5. What sources does the narrator use, to piece together the story?
6. What did John tell himself about what he did to Weatherby?
7. What indication does the book give us about what really happened?
8. What do we learn about John's character from the evidence and narrative?
9. What do we know about the night of the boiling plants?
10. Where does the narrator says that Kathy might have gone in his hypothesis in Chapter 9?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does the narrator create a sense of certainty in a book that is ceaselessly probing into facts to get at the unwritten and unknowable truth. Is certainty relative--does it depend on your personal interpretation? Are facts knowable? Is truth simply practical? What epistemology--science of knowledge--informs 'In the Lake of the Woods'?
Essay Topic 2
What questions are we really asking when we ask what happened to Kathy? What is this book really about, at bottom?
Essay Topic 3
Make a timeline of the events described in the book, and then devise a method of indicating how the book jumps back and forth between times. What structure or pattern emerges? What is unique about this structure?
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