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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. How does John describe the scene he encountered after reading Kathy's letter?
(a) He says that he and his company carried an enormous burden of suffering.
(b) He says that no one was in control of their pain.
(c) He says that no one had been spared from suffering.
(d) He says that no one was dying quietly.

2. Who is John Wade?
(a) A mechanic.
(b) A fisherman.
(c) A soldier.
(d) A politician.

3. What shape does John's awareness of his action take?
(a) Terror at the silence coming from Kathy now.
(b) Sorrow over the redness and blisters on Kathy's skin.
(c) Repugnance from the smell of dead foliage.
(d) Horror at the sight of what he's done.

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

5. When does In the Lake of the Woods begin?
(a) November.
(b) July.
(c) September.
(d) May.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had John and Kathy tried to do, that had been a failure?

2. Where did the sheriff come out to the lake from?

3. What do John and Kathy do on their seventh day at the cabin?

4. What does the narrator hypothesize in Chapter 14, "Hypothesis"?

5. Why is it important that we know Kathy's physical measurements?

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