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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 evidence does the narrator describe for this hypothesis?
2. What does Patricia say about the point John brings up about Kathy in Chapter 19, "What was Found"?
3. Where would investigators have to look for Kathy's body, according the hypothesis in Chapter 27?
4. What does Kathy say when Tony Carbo says that John likes to stack the deck?
5. Where was Kathy when John made his concession speech on election night?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was Kathy thinking about, in the narrator's hypothesis in Chapter 24?
2. Describe the relationship between Kathy and Tony Carbo.
3. Describe the night in Las Vegas when John found Kathy and Tony Carbo gambling.
4. What are Arthur Lux and Vinny Pearson's opinions about John according to the evidence presented in Chapter 25?
5. Describe the relationship between John and Vinny Pearson in Chapter 23, "Where They Looked".
6. What do Sandra Karra and Deborah Lindquist say about John's talents as a magician in the Evidence chapter, chapter 20?
7. What does Arthur Lux tell John when John goes into town to meet Patricia?
8. What does sorcerer admit to in the evidence from the court martial hearings?
9. What was John like in the eighth grade?
10. Describe Kathy's feelings for Harmon, according to the narrator's hypothesis in Chapter 18.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In what way is the John still always trying to erase himself from the records after Vietnam? Where does he succeed? Where does he fail? Is complete erasure possible? Is it desirable?
Essay Topic 2
Evaluate your own reading of In the Lake of the Woods--did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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