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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 Calley order the men to do?

2. What does Tony Carbo tell John after the election?

3. How did John's platoon try to block the stench of the dead?

4. What does Deborah Lindquist say about Kathy's relationship with John?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the relationship between Kathy and Tony Carbo.

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

4. What does the narrator speculate in the hypothesis in Chapter 24?

5. What are Kathy's plans, according to the hypothesis in Chapter 18?

6. Describe the relationship between John and Vinny Pearson in Chapter 23, "Where They Looked".

7. What is the narrator's last hypothesis?

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

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

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

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 2

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

Essay Topic 3

How does this book create its effect on the reader? Describe in detail how Tim O'Brien uses a combination of suspense and details to draw the reader in.

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