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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. How did John's platoon try to block the stench of the dead?
(a) By burning everything.
(b) By covering the bodies with ash.
(c) By tying rags around their faces.
(d) By spraying the bodies with lye.

2. What trait of John's intensified after his father's death?
(a) Sentimentalism.
(b) Secrecy.
(c) Need for attention.
(d) Fantasy.

3. What does John remember about the night of the boiling plants after Arthur Lux and Vinny Pearson leave?
(a) Walking into the bedroom.
(b) Digging a hole.
(c) Taking the boat out.
(d) Carrying Kathy.

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

5. When is Chapter 8, "How the Night Passed", set?
(a) The night when John lost the election.
(b) The night when John returned from the military.
(c) The night before Kathy's disappearance.
(d) The night when John and his company massacred the Vietnamese.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator speculate Kathy was thinking about in the scenario he lays out?

3. How do John and Kathy deal with the fact that their dreams are impossible for the moment?

4. What do Claude and Ruth do in Chapter 19, "What was Found"?

5. How did John spend his time in eighth grade?

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