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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. Where do John and Kathy go immediately after the concession speech?

2. What do Claude and Ruth do in Chapter 19, "What was Found"?

3. What does Calley order the men to do?

4. Where was Kathy when John made his concession speech on election night?

5. How does Kathy tell Tony Carbo she felt after her affair with Harmon?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was John like in the eighth grade?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What did Tony Carbo tell John and Kathy on the night of the election?

9. What is the narrator's last hypothesis?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

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

To what degree is this book internally consistent? How much does it follow the rules it lays out for its own unfolding?

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