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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18 through 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the author interject about Kathy's disappearance?
(a) That John was going to have to do something about the witnesses to her disappearance.
(b) That John knew very well what happened.
(c) That it might not have happened the way John thinks.
(d) That it was just a matter of time until her disappearance was understood.

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

4. What did Kathy have at age 34?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Smallpox.
(c) An abortion.
(d) An appendectomy.

5. When did John and Kathy know that the election was lost?
(a) Weeks before election night.
(b) Six weeks after the election, when the last appeal was turned down.
(c) Election night.
(d) Three days after the election.

Short Answer Questions

1. Describe the narrator of In the Lake of the Woods.

2. What imagery does O'Brien use to convey the scene of John's anger and Kathy's reaction to it?

3. What does John tell Claude Rasmussen after talking with Patricia?

4. What evidence did the clerk from town contribute to the discussion Arthur Lux and Vinny Pearson had with John?

5. How do John and Kathy treat each other by their seventh day at the cabin?

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