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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21 through 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tony Carbo say in response to John's question?
(a) He says that John is finished in politics.
(b) He says he is a pig and couldn't help himself.
(c) He says he can still get John on the ballot for state representative.
(d) He says that he had been recruited.

2. What happens right before John's platoon is ordered back to Thuan Yen?
(a) A soldier's foot was blown off.
(b) One of the soldiers killed a Vietnamese soldier.
(c) A soldier was ambushed and killed.
(d) The men agreed to cover up the massacre.

3. What does John tell Kathy about in his letters from Vietnam?
(a) His love for her.
(b) The war.
(c) His experiences killing people.
(d) The pains he suffers.

4. What shape does John's awareness of his action take?
(a) Horror at the sight of what he's done.
(b) Terror at the silence coming from Kathy now.
(c) Sorrow over the redness and blisters on Kathy's skin.
(d) Repugnance from the smell of dead foliage.

5. Where did the sheriff come out to the lake from?
(a) Baudette.
(b) Rainy River.
(c) St. Paul.
(d) Minneapolis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is John's hypothesis in Chapter 9 "Hypothesis"?

2. What does Kathy say when Tony Carbo says that John likes to stack the deck?

3. Why does John say he might have slept through the outboard motor starting on the boat?

4. Where are the soldiers from John's outfit being questioned in Chapter 16, "Evidence"?

5. What does Claude Rasmussen recommend John do in Chapter 15, "What the Questions Were"?

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