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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 does John say about secrets?

2. What did Kathy have at age 34?

3. What cost John the victory in the election?

4. When does In the Lake of the Woods begin?

5. Who is Kathy?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What indication does the book give us about what really happened?

4. How does the narrator describe Kathy's feelings in the hypothesis in Chapter 9?

5. Describe the effect of reading In the Lake of the Woods.

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

7. What do we hear about Weatherby that adds to what we heard about earlier?

8. What did John discover when he returned from the war?

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

10. What do Arthur Lux and Vinny Pearson think happened to Kathy?

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

In what ways are the investigations into Kathy's disappear and the massacre at Thuan Yen parallel? In what ways are they different?

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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