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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 Kathy say when Tony Carbo says that John likes to stack the deck?

2. What changed John's mind from what he and Calley agreed to?

3. What did John notice after the massacre?

4. What is Arthur Lux's final opinion about John and Kathy?

5. What happens right before John's platoon is ordered back to Thuan Yen?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the relationship between Kathy and Tony Carbo.

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

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

4. What are Arthur Lux and Vinny Pearson's opinions about John according to the evidence presented in Chapter 25?

5. What did the evidence presented in Chapter 25 indicate about the massacre in Thuan Yen?

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

7. What does Arthur Lux tell John when John goes into town to meet Patricia?

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

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

10. Describe John's departure from Lake of the Woods.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

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?

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