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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 happens to John after reading Kathy's letter?

2. What evidence did the clerk from town contribute to the discussion Arthur Lux and Vinny Pearson had with John?

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

4. What does John remember from the night of the boiling water?

5. What does John remember about the night of the boiling plants after Arthur Lux and Vinny Pearson leave?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What do we learn about John's character from the evidence and narrative?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Is Lake of the Woods a uniquely American book? What makes it American, or in what way is it something else? Is it international or supra-national?

Essay Topic 3

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

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