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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 omit from his letters to Kathy from Vietnam?

2. How do John and Kathy treat each other by their seventh day at the cabin?

3. Why is it important that we know Kathy's physical measurements?

4. What cost John the victory in the election?

5. What does the narrator say motivated John to join the military?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens shortly after John got this letter from Kathy?

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

4. Describe the importance of the abortion Kathy had.

5. Why did John lose the election?

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

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

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

9. What sources does the narrator use, to piece together the story?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the role and importance of uncharted wilderness in 'In the Lake of the Woods'. What archetype of wilderness is this book aligned with? The wilderness of myths and legends? The wilderness of the frontier? The wilderness of indigenous people in North America?

Essay Topic 2

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'?

Essay Topic 3

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

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