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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 long before he left Vietnam did John get a desk job?

2. What does Patricia say about the point John brings up about Kathy in Chapter 19, "What was Found"?

3. Why does Claude Rasmussen say he will go with John?

4. Who was Sandra Karra?

5. What does the narrator think happened to Kathy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the report about Robert T'Souvas?

2. What does Arthur Lux tell John when John goes into town to meet Patricia?

3. What was John like in the eighth grade?

4. What did the evidence presented in Chapter 25 indicate about the massacre in Thuan Yen?

5. What does the narrator speculate happened, in the hypothesis in Chapter 27?

6. What does Eleanor Wade say about John's father's death and its effect on John?

7. Describe the night in Las Vegas when John found Kathy and Tony Carbo gambling.

8. Describe the arrangements John makes for the day after Patricia's arrival?

9. Describe Kathy's feelings for Harmon, according to the narrator's hypothesis in Chapter 18.

10. Describe the relationship between Kathy and Tony Carbo.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is magic, and what role does it play in In the Lake of the Woods? Are things accomplished by unseen forces? Are there always gimmicks behind how things happen?

Essay Topic 2

Write an evaluative review of 'In the Lake of the Woods'. What is this book's place in culture? What are its uses? Who is its audience? What are its limitations?

Essay Topic 3

Evaluate your own reading of In the Lake of the Woods--did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.

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