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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 was happening when John showed up when Kathy and Tony Carbo were gambling?
2. Who was Sandra Karra?
3. What does Kathy say when Tony Carbo says that John likes to stack the deck?
4. What technique does the narrator use in narrating the Hypothesis chapters?
5. What is Kathy's reaction to John and Tony Carbo's conversation?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Tony Carbo tell John and Kathy on the night of the election?
2. What did John and Kathy do after John gave his concession speech on election night?
3. What does Eleanor Wade say about John's father's death and its effect on John?
4. What does the narrator theorize in the hypothesis in Chapter 18?
5. What are Arthur Lux and Vinny Pearson's opinions about John according to the evidence presented in Chapter 25?
6. Describe how Patricia comes to Lake of the Woods.
7. Describe the arrangements John makes for the day after Patricia's arrival?
8. Why did John reenlist after his first tour in Vietnam?
9. What does Arthur Lux tell John when John goes into town to meet Patricia?
10. Describe the conversation Kathy and Tony Carbo have after John finds them gambling together.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
To what extent is this book an allegory? To what extent is it bound in time as a product of the Vietnam War? If it is an allegory, what is it an allegory for? What experiences are at the heart of it? What eternal fact of the human heart does this allegory introduce us to?
Essay Topic 2
What is Tim O'Brien doing with the form of the novel by refusing to answer the question of Kathy's disappearance? How is 'In the Lake of the Woods' different from the 'typical' novel? What is the benefit of that difference? What are the drawbacks?
Essay Topic 3
Make a timeline of the events described in the book, and then devise a method of indicating how the book jumps back and forth between times. What structure or pattern emerges? What is unique about this structure?
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