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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the radio on John's boat, ultimately?
(a) It breaks.
(b) John smashes it.
(c) He disconnects it and drops it overboard.
(d) John gets beyond range for any transmission to get through.

2. What direction does John travel in Chapter 28, "How He Went Away"?
(a) North.
(b) West.
(c) East.
(d) South.

3. What does the narrator suggest in Chapter 18, "Hypothesis"?
(a) That Kathy was abducted.
(b) That Kathy ran aground or ran out of fuel.
(c) That Kathy was suicidal.
(d) That Kathy did not have an accident.

4. What does Claude Rasmussen tell John on the radio?
(a) Vinny Pearson has been fired for exceeding his authority in searching the cabin.
(b) The police are tearing apart the cabin and the surroundings.
(c) The police are giving up on the search for Kathy.
(d) The police are calling members of his platoon from Vietnam.

5. How does Patricia arrive in Chapter 19, "What was Found"?
(a) By helicopter.
(b) By train.
(c) By sea plane.
(d) She drives.

6. What did Deborah Lindquist say Kathy called John in college?
(a) Inspector Clouseau.
(b) The sorcerer.
(c) James Bond.
(d) Inspector Gadget.

7. What parallel does Patricia draw between John and Kathy?
(a) John's lies were the equivalent to Kathy's secrets.
(b) John's magic was the analogous to Kathy's forgiveness of him.
(c) John's career was the equivalent of Kathy's affair.
(d) John's violent past was the equivalent of Kathy's violent future.

8. In the hypothesis in Chapter 27, what does John do?
(a) Moves funds into an account Kathy could access from anywhere on the globe.
(b) Sleeps while Kathy packed and left.
(c) Pours boiling water on Kathy's face.
(d) Files for divorce before going to Lake of the Woods.

9. What does Kathy say when Tony Carbo says that John likes to stack the deck?
(a) That John doesn't cheat.
(b) That she can always tell how John does his tricks.
(c) That John can never hide his awkwardness.
(d) That John is a master of making the trick look easy.

10. What does the narrator think happened to Kathy?
(a) She passed out for lack of food and water.
(b) She got lost in the endless lake and islands.
(c) She got in an accident.
(d) She was injured from John pouring boiling water on her.

11. What did John think about the work he did at his desk job?
(a) He worried only about being recognized by his comrades.
(b) He would never be tracked down as Sorcerer.
(c) It was not foolproof, but it freed him.
(d) He was anxious about the papers stored at sites he could not get to.

12. What is the narrator's last hypothesis?
(a) That John and Kathy agreed to go into the lake together.
(b) That John and Kathy ran away together.
(c) That Kathy simply disappeared, almost as if by magic.
(d) That John killed Kathy.

13. Who was Sandra Karra?
(a) John's school teacher.
(b) John's first girlfriend.
(c) John's mother's friend.
(d) The woman at the magic shop.

14. What is Kathy's reaction to John and Tony Carbo's conversation?
(a) She tries to get both men to reason.
(b) She takes John's side against Tony Carbo.
(c) She walks out in disgust.
(d) She argues with both of them.

15. How does Tony Carbo describe his relationship with John to Kathy?
(a) The alter ego.
(b) The trusty assistant.
(c) The numbers man.
(d) The wizard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Vernado Simpson claim responsibility for?

2. Where does the narrator place John and Kathy in his last hypothesis?

3. How does Kathy feel about the gesture John made after she returned from Harmon?

4. What does John ask Tony Carbo in response to Tony Carbo's announcement?

5. What does Patricia say about the point John brings up about Kathy in Chapter 19, "What was Found"?

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