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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. When did John and Kathy know that the election was lost?
2. What does John notice the morning after the night of the boiling plants?
3. Where does John promise to take Kathy?
4. When did John pass the bar?
5. Which of these is NOT a secret John keeps from everyone?
Short Essay Questions
1. What indication does the book give us about what really happened?
2. What does John think about Kathy's absence?
3. What does Kathy tell John in a letter to him in Vietnam?
4. What happens shortly after John got this letter from Kathy?
5. What do we hear about Weatherby that adds to what we heard about earlier?
6. What was John's experience of Vietnam like, and what did Weatherby have to do with his experience?
7. What does John tell Kathy in his letters from Vietnam?
8. What is the problem with the hypothesis in Chapter 14?
9. What is the narrator's hypothesis in Chapter 14?
10. Describe the importance of the abortion Kathy had.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
To what extent is this book an allegory? To what extent is it bound in time as a product of the Vietnam War? If it is an allegory, what is it an allegory for? What experiences are at the heart of it? What eternal fact of the human heart does this allegory introduce us to?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
How does the narrator create a sense of certainty in a book that is ceaselessly probing into facts to get at the unwritten and unknowable truth. Is certainty relative--does it depend on your personal interpretation? Are facts knowable? Is truth simply practical? What epistemology--science of knowledge--informs 'In the Lake of the Woods'?
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