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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 the narrator hypothesize in Chapter 14, "Hypothesis"?

2. Who is Tony Carbo?

3. How did John cope with the event that took place when he was 14?

4. What does Claude Rasmussen say about Vinny Pearson's suspicions?

5. What did John do in the middle of the night?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What additional information do we get about the night of the boiling plants?

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

4. Where does the narrator says that Kathy might have gone in his hypothesis in Chapter 9?

5. What does John think about Kathy's absence?

6. What was John's experience of Vietnam like, and what did Weatherby have to do with his experience?

7. Describe the difference between Arthur Lux and Vinny Pearson.

8. What is the narrator's hypothesis in Chapter 14?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Kathy's infidelity to John with Harmon and John's infidelity to Kathy with politics. How are they similar? How are they different? Can they even be described in the same terms?

Essay Topic 2

What questions are we really asking when we ask what happened to Kathy? What is this book really about, at bottom?

Essay Topic 3

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

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