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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. What do Claude and Ruth do in Chapter 19, "What was Found"?
(a) Watch the news.
(b) Man the phones.
(c) Search the lake for Kathy.
(d) Cook for John.

2. How did John cope with the event that took place when he was 14?
(a) He studied the Vietnam War in school.
(b) He moved back and forth between his parents.
(c) He pretended his father was still alive.
(d) He befriended the neighborhood housewives.

3. What does the narrator say was found, in Chapter 19, "What was Found"?
(a) Wreckage of the boat.
(b) Life preservers.
(c) No sign.
(d) Kathy's clothing.

4. What imagery does O'Brien use to convey the scene of John's anger and Kathy's reaction to it?
(a) The comparison of John's pain to electric eels.
(b) The sound of screaming.
(c) The scent of wet wool.
(d) The sound of water splashing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What shape does John's awareness of his action take?

2. What did John's father call him when John was a child?

3. What does Paul Meadlo admit to when he is questioned?

4. When did John and Kathy meet?

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

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