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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. How do John and Kathy treat each other by their seventh day at the cabin?
(a) They are indifferent to each other.
(b) They are intimate with each other.
(c) They are careful with each other.
(d) They are hostile toward each other.

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

3. What does John think Kathy thinks of him?
(a) That he is psychotic and out of control.
(b) That nothing is good enough for him.
(c) That he wants to kill everything around him.
(d) That he is too furious to be around.

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

5. What did John's campaign manager call John's opponent's tactics?
(a) Ambush politics.
(b) Take no prisoners politics.
(c) Personal politics.
(d) Bare-knuckle politics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John remember from the night of the boiling water?

2. What does John do the morning after the night of the boiling plants?

3. What does Eleanor Wade say about her son?

4. What does Kathy suspect John of when he joins the military?

5. When does In the Lake of the Woods begin?

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