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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 fantasy had Tony Carbo been harboring?
2. What does Arthur Lux tell John about the election?
3. Where do the police look for Kathy?
4. What does Arthur Lux tell John when John goes to meet Patricia's arrival?
5. Where do John and Kathy go immediately after the concession speech?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do we know for sure at the end of the book?
2. Describe the scene of the massacre as the evidence reveals it in Chapter 21.
3. What did John and Kathy do after John gave his concession speech on election night?
4. What was Kathy thinking about, in the narrator's hypothesis in Chapter 24?
5. Describe the relationship between Kathy and Tony Carbo.
6. What is the narrator's last hypothesis?
7. What does sorcerer admit to in the evidence from the court martial hearings?
8. Describe Kathy's feelings for Harmon, according to the narrator's hypothesis in Chapter 18.
9. What does Arthur Lux tell John when John goes into town to meet Patricia?
10. What are Arthur Lux and Vinny Pearson's opinions about John according to the evidence presented in Chapter 25?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Evaluate your own reading of In the Lake of the Woods--did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.
Essay Topic 2
What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.
Essay Topic 3
How realistic is this book? What parts are not believable? What leaps of faith does the author require of the reader?
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