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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. In the hypothesis in Chapter 27, what does John do?

2. What does the narrator think happened to Kathy?

3. How does Tony Carbo describe his relationship with John to Kathy?

4. What did Deborah Lindquist say Kathy called John in college?

5. What did Vernado Simpson claim responsibility for?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the conversation Kathy and Tony Carbo have after John finds them gambling together.

2. Describe the scene the soldiers encountered when they were ordered back to Thuan Yen.

3. What did John and Kathy do after John gave his concession speech on election night?

4. What was Kathy thinking about, in the narrator's hypothesis in Chapter 24?

5. What was John like in the eighth grade?

6. Describe the arrangements John makes for the day after Patricia's arrival?

7. What do Sandra Karra and Deborah Lindquist say about John's talents as a magician in the Evidence chapter, chapter 20?

8. Describe how Patricia comes to Lake of the Woods.

9. What does the narrator speculate happened, in the hypothesis in Chapter 27?

10. Why did John reenlist after his first tour in Vietnam?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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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