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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13 through 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did John do in the middle of the night?
(a) Pours boiling water on the houseplants.
(b) Pours boiling water on Kathy's face.
(c) Pours boiling water on his pictures.
(d) Pours boiling water on his hands.

3. What is the result of O'Brien titling more than one chapter "Hypothesis"?
(a) We return to the same question over and over.
(b) We lose our sense of time.
(c) We get confused about where the narrative is taking us.
(d) We doubt the narrator's credibility.

4. Where did John and Kathy meet?
(a) University of Minnesota.
(b) Washington D.C.
(c) Lake of the Woods.
(d) Vietnam.

5. How does the narrator describe the campaigns Tony Carbo ran for John?
(a) Disorganized.
(b) Slick, expensive.
(c) Grassroots.
(d) Values-based.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Tony Carbo?

2. What does the author interject about Kathy's disappearance?

3. Where does John promise to take Kathy?

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

5. What does John think Kathy thinks of him?

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