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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 do the police look for Kathy?

2. What parallel does Patricia draw between John and Kathy?

3. What does the narrator suggest in Chapter 18, "Hypothesis"?

4. What does the narrator say was found, in Chapter 19, "What was Found"?

5. What changed John's mind from what he and Calley agreed to?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the relationship between Kathy and Tony Carbo.

3. What does Patricia say to John when she arrives?

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

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

6. Describe how Patricia comes to Lake of the Woods.

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

How does this book create its effect on the reader? Describe in detail how Tim O'Brien uses a combination of suspense and details to draw the reader in.

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