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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 changed John's mind from what he and Calley agreed to?
2. What did John notice after the massacre?
3. How did John's father die?
4. What do PFC Thinbill and John agree to do the night after the massacre?
5. What is Kathy's reaction to John and Tony Carbo's conversation?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do we know for sure at the end of the book?
2. What does the narrator theorize in the hypothesis in Chapter 18?
3. What was Kathy thinking about, in the narrator's hypothesis in Chapter 24?
4. What did John and his company do after the massacre?
5. What did the evidence presented in Chapter 25 indicate about the massacre in Thuan Yen?
6. Describe the arrangements John makes for the day after Patricia's arrival?
7. Describe how Patricia comes to Lake of the Woods.
8. What are Arthur Lux and Vinny Pearson's opinions about John according to the evidence presented in Chapter 25?
9. Describe the night in Las Vegas when John found Kathy and Tony Carbo gambling.
10. What do Sandra Karra and Deborah Lindquist say about John's talents as a magician in the Evidence chapter, chapter 20?
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
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.
Essay Topic 3
How realistic is this book? What parts are not believable? What leaps of faith does the author require of the reader?
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