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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. Where does John sleep on his first night out from the cabin?

2. What does John point out to Patricia about Kathy?

3. What does John ask Tony Carbo in response to Tony Carbo's announcement?

4. What does the narrator speculate Kathy was thinking about in the scenario he lays out?

5. What trait of John's intensified after his father's death?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the relationship between Kathy and Tony Carbo.

3. What did Tony Carbo tell John and Kathy on the night of the election?

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

5. Describe John's departure from Lake of the Woods.

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

7. What does the narrator speculate in the hypothesis in Chapter 24?

8. What was Kathy thinking about, in the narrator's hypothesis in Chapter 24?

9. What do we know for sure at the end of the book?

10. What do Sandra Karra and Deborah Lindquist say about John's talents as a magician in the Evidence chapter, chapter 20?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Based on the contents of the book, describe what John's future is likely to be like. Where would he go, and what would he do, after losing radio contact? Is he done with life? Is he ripe to start over? Base your answer on evidence from the text.

Essay Topic 2

How realistic is this book? What parts are not believable? What leaps of faith does the author require of the reader?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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