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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 Claude Rasmussen tell John on the radio?
2. What happens right before John's platoon is ordered back to Thuan Yen?
3. What direction does John travel in Chapter 28, "How He Went Away"?
4. What does Patricia say about the point John brings up about Kathy in Chapter 19, "What was Found"?
5. What did the soldiers say about the massacre at Thuan Yen?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did John and his company do after the massacre?
2. Why did John reenlist after his first tour in Vietnam?
3. Describe the scene the soldiers encountered when they were ordered back to Thuan Yen.
4. What is the narrator's last hypothesis?
5. What did Tony Carbo tell John and Kathy on the night of the election?
6. What does Patricia say to John when she arrives?
7. What was the report about Robert T'Souvas?
8. What does sorcerer admit to in the evidence from the court martial hearings?
9. Describe how Patricia comes to Lake of the Woods.
10. What was Kathy thinking about, in the narrator's hypothesis in Chapter 24?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 3
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?
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