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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. How does the narrator describe the killing at Thuan Yen?
2. What is Kathy's reaction to John and Tony Carbo's conversation?
3. What did John tell Kathy about why he re-enlisted?
4. Where does the narrator say Kathy might have headed toward?
5. Why does Claude Rasmussen say he will go with John?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do we know for sure at the end of the book?
2. Describe the scene the soldiers encountered when they were ordered back to Thuan Yen.
3. Describe Kathy's feelings for Harmon, according to the narrator's hypothesis in Chapter 18.
4. What was the report about Robert T'Souvas?
5. What does sorcerer admit to in the evidence from the court martial hearings?
6. What is the narrator's last hypothesis?
7. What are Arthur Lux and Vinny Pearson's opinions about John according to the evidence presented in Chapter 25?
8. Describe the conversation Kathy and Tony Carbo have after John finds them gambling together.
9. Describe the relationship between Kathy and Tony Carbo.
10. Describe the scene of the massacre as the evidence reveals it in Chapter 21.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is magic, and what role does it play in In the Lake of the Woods? Are things accomplished by unseen forces? Are there always gimmicks behind how things happen?
Essay Topic 2
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 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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