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

2. What was John's relationship with his father like?
(a) Disdainful.
(b) Disjointed.
(c) Affectionate.
(d) Distrustful.

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

4. What does Paul Meadlo admit to when he is questioned?
(a) Raping prisoners.
(b) Taking trophies from dead bodies.
(c) Stealing from Vietnamese.
(d) Shooting women and children.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does John wonder about after Kathy has gone missing?

5. How do John and Kathy treat each other by their seventh day at the cabin?

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