  The effects of the final state interaction (FSI) in semi-exclusive
deep-inelastic scattering of electrons off the deuteron are analyzed paying
particular attention to two extreme kinematical regions: i) the one where FSI
effects are minimized, so that the quark distribution of bound nucleons could
be investigated, and ii) the one where the re-interaction of the produced
hadrons with the spectator nucleon is maximized, which would allow one to study
the mechanism of hadronization of highly virtual quark. It is demonstrated that
when the recoiling spectator nucleon is detected in the backward hemisphere
with low momentum the effects from FSI are negligible, whereas at large
transverse momenta of the spectator the FSI effects are rather large. Numerical
estimates show that the FSI corrections are sensitive to the theoretical models
of the hadronization mechanism.
