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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 through 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When do we discover that Kathy is missing?
(a) When Vinny Pearson says that he thinks Wade killed her.
(b) When Wade wakes up.
(c) When the sheriff shows up at John and Kathy's cabin.
(d) When Wade describes pouring boiling water on the plants.

2. What happened to soldier Weatherby?
(a) John shot him.
(b) John held him while he died.
(c) John recovered his body.
(d) John rescued him.

3. Why is John feeling humiliated?
(a) He lost by a landslide.
(b) He was arrested for money laundering.
(c) He was exposed as a phony.
(d) He was caught in an affair.

4. Where does John go the day after the night of the boiling plants?
(a) The sheriff.
(b) Out on the lake.
(c) Home.
(d) Claude Rasmussen's house.

5. What does John remember from the night of the boiling water?
(a) Pouring boiling water on himself.
(b) Killing Kathy.
(c) Kathy not being in bed.
(d) Admitting his crime in Vietnam.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is John's hypothesis in Chapter 9 "Hypothesis"?

2. What was John's relationship with his father like?

3. What does John do after being discharged from the military?

4. How old is Kathy at the beginning of In the Lake of the Woods?

5. When is Chapter 8, "How the Night Passed", set?

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