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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Arthur Lux's final opinion about John and Kathy?
(a) He knows John is a good guy.
(b) He feels like he should have listened to Vinny Pearson.
(c) He got busy with other things, and the mystery stopped being meaningful to him.
(d) He continues to examine different possibilities.

2. What trait of John's intensified after his father's death?
(a) Need for attention.
(b) Sentimentalism.
(c) Fantasy.
(d) Secrecy.

3. Where was Kathy when John made his concession speech on election night?
(a) At her sister's house.
(b) At a fundraiser.
(c) At home.
(d) By his side.

4. How did Robert W. T'Souvas die?
(a) In a bar fight.
(b) In a car accident.
(c) From cancer.
(d) During an operation on his appendix.

5. What did John notice after the massacre?
(a) The smell of blood.
(b) The sound of helicopters.
(c) The scent of coming rain.
(d) The heat of the sun.

Short Answer Questions

1. What parallel does Patricia draw between John and Kathy?

2. What does Calley order the men to do?

3. What was it about going out with Harmon that excited Kathy, according to the narrator's hypothesis in Chapter 24?

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

5. What did Vernado Simpson claim responsibility for?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do Sandra Karra and Deborah Lindquist say about John's talents as a magician in the Evidence chapter, chapter 20?

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

4. What do we know for sure at the end of the book?

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

6. What is the narrator's last hypothesis?

7. What did John and Kathy do after John gave his concession speech on election night?

8. What does Patricia say to John when she arrives?

9. Describe how Patricia comes to Lake of the Woods.

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

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