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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 John does not believe in?
(a) Luck.
(b) People.
(c) Honesty.
(d) God.

2. What does Claude Rasmussen say about Vinny Pearson's suspicions?
(a) He says it's hard not to come to the same conclusion.
(b) He says Vinny Pearson distrusts every outsider.
(c) He says that Vinny Pearson is a difficult person to deal with, everyone thinks so.
(d) He doesn't believe John had anything to do with Kathy's disappearance.

3. Where do the police look for Kathy?
(a) In nearby islands.
(b) In her hometown.
(c) Around the cabin.
(d) Where she went to college.

4. What is the result of O'Brien titling more than one chapter "Hypothesis"?
(a) We lose our sense of time.
(b) We get confused about where the narrative is taking us.
(c) We doubt the narrator's credibility.
(d) We return to the same question over and over.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the sheriff come out to the lake from?

2. What was John's nickname in Vietnam?

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

4. What does Kathy say in the letter John gets in Chapter 13, "The Nature of the Beast"?

5. What does the narrator say motivated John to join the military?

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