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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 Vinny think happened?

2. When do we discover that Kathy is missing?

3. Which of these is NOT a secret John keeps from everyone?

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

5. What does Kathy say in the letter John gets in Chapter 13, "The Nature of the Beast"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does John tell Kathy in his letters from Vietnam?

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

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

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

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

7. What is Claude Rasmussen's opinion about what happened?

8. Describe the importance of the abortion Kathy had.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

Essay Topic 2

Write an evaluative review of 'In the Lake of the Woods'. What is this book's place in culture? What are its uses? Who is its audience? What are its limitations?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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