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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did John and Kathy know that the election was lost?
(a) Six weeks after the election, when the last appeal was turned down.
(b) Election night.
(c) Three days after the election.
(d) Weeks before election night.

2. How old is Kathy at the beginning of In the Lake of the Woods?
(a) 38.
(b) 33.
(c) 28.
(d) 43.

3. What did Kathy have at age 34?
(a) An appendectomy.
(b) Smallpox.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) An abortion.

4. What do John and Kathy do on their seventh day at the cabin?
(a) Swim and lie in the sun.
(b) Put in a garden.
(c) Read and sleep and make love.
(d) Clean the cabin.

5. What did John watch Weatherby do?
(a) Kill Kathy.
(b) Hide in a ditch.
(c) Scalp a man.
(d) Shoot two girls.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was John's childhood hobby?

2. What does Claude Rasmussen recommend John do in Chapter 15, "What the Questions Were"?

3. How does the narrator describe the campaigns Tony Carbo ran for John?

4. What does the author interject about Kathy's disappearance?

5. When did John pass the bar?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the setting of the opening scene of In the Lake of the Woods.

2. How well are John and Kathy doing, at coping with events?

3. What sources does the narrator use, to piece together the story?

4. What did John tell himself about what he did to Weatherby?

5. Why did John lose the election?

6. What is the problem with the hypothesis in Chapter 14?

7. How does Kathy die in the hypothesis in Chapter 14?

8. What limits are imposed on the omniscience of the narrator?

9. What happens shortly after John got this letter from Kathy?

10. What does Kathy tell John in a letter to him in Vietnam?

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