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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 comes out about Sorcerer in testimony during the court martial?
(a) That he falsified his records.
(b) That he killed civilians.
(c) That he killed women and children.
(d) That he killed one of his own.

2. What is Kathy's relationship with Harmon, in the hypothesis in Chapter 24?
(a) She still sees his face.
(b) She can't remember him.
(c) She wants to talk to him.
(d) She looks for him in crowds.

3. What was it about going out with Harmon that excited Kathy, according to the narrator's hypothesis in Chapter 24?
(a) Harmon's ease with money.
(b) The danger of cheating on John.
(c) Harmon's sense of humor.
(d) Harmon's good looks.

4. What does John point out to Patricia about Kathy?
(a) That she had an affair.
(b) That she hadn't left any sign.
(c) That she hated politics.
(d) That she loved him deeply.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say Kathy might have done in Chapter 22, "Hypothesis"?

2. What does Patricia say about her sister?

3. What did John's father call him when he (John) was in eighth grade?

4. How does Patricia arrive in Chapter 19, "What was Found"?

5. What did Deborah Lindquist say Kathy called John in college?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the arrangements John makes for the day after Patricia's arrival?

2. Describe the conversation Kathy and Tony Carbo have after John finds them gambling together.

3. Why did John reenlist after his first tour in Vietnam?

4. What is the narrator's last hypothesis?

5. What does Eleanor Wade say about John's father's death and its effect on John?

6. What was Kathy thinking about, in the narrator's hypothesis in Chapter 24?

7. Describe the night in Las Vegas when John found Kathy and Tony Carbo gambling.

8. What does the narrator speculate happened, in the hypothesis in Chapter 27?

9. What did Tony Carbo tell John and Kathy on the night of the election?

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

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