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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 happens to the radio on John's boat, ultimately?

2. What did John tell Kathy about why he re-enlisted?

3. What literary term describes the description of Kathy's return from her time with Harmon?

4. What was happening when John showed up when Kathy and Tony Carbo were gambling?

5. What is Kathy's relationship with Harmon, in the hypothesis in Chapter 24?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator theorize in the hypothesis in Chapter 18?

2. What does Patricia say to John when she arrives?

3. What does Eleanor Wade say about John's father's death and its effect on John?

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

5. Describe Kathy's feelings for Harmon, according to the narrator's hypothesis in Chapter 18.

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

7. What do we know for sure at the end of the book?

8. What did John and his company do after the massacre?

9. Describe the night in Las Vegas when John found Kathy and Tony Carbo gambling.

10. What was the report about Robert T'Souvas?

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

Write an evaluative review of 'In the Lake of the Woods'. What is this book's place in culture? What are its uses? Who is its audience? What are its limitations?

Essay Topic 3

What questions are we really asking when we ask what happened to Kathy? What is this book really about, at bottom?

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