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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 did Vernado Simpson claim responsibility for?

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

3. What did Colonel William V. Wilson say about the massacre at Thuan Yen?

4. How does Kathy feel about the gesture John made after she returned from Harmon?

5. Where does the narrator say Kathy might have headed toward?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator theorize in the hypothesis in Chapter 18?

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

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

6. Describe the scene of the massacre as the evidence reveals it in Chapter 21.

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

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

9. What does sorcerer admit to in the evidence from the court martial hearings?

10. What are Arthur Lux and Vinny Pearson's opinions about John according to the evidence presented in Chapter 25?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the role and importance of uncharted wilderness in 'In the Lake of the Woods'. What archetype of wilderness is this book aligned with? The wilderness of myths and legends? The wilderness of the frontier? The wilderness of indigenous people in North America?

Essay Topic 2

Write a character sketch of the author based on his style and content. What values does he hold dear? What are his hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think he is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.

Essay Topic 3

To what degree is this book internally consistent? How much does it follow the rules it lays out for its own unfolding?

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