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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18 through 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Kathy say in the letter John gets in Chapter 13, "The Nature of the Beast"?
(a) That she needs freedom from him.
(b) That she met someone else.
(c) That she is waiting for him.
(d) That she wants to get married.

3. What did Kathy have at age 34?
(a) An abortion.
(b) Smallpox.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) An appendectomy.

4. What does John wonder about after Kathy has gone missing?
(a) Whether Kathy had been having an affair.
(b) Where he could go to escape suspicion for her disappearance.
(c) What would have happened if they'd made love.
(d) What Kathy thought of him.

5. What does John tell Claude Rasmussen after talking with Patricia?
(a) That he didn't kill Kathy.
(b) That he is going to call off the search.
(c) That he would like to use the boat for the next day.
(d) That Patricia will be in charge now.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vinny think happened?

2. How does Arthur Lux say John might counter some of the rumors about his role in Kathy's disappearance?

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

4. What did one of the members of John's company have attached to his helmet?

5. What did John do in the middle of the night?

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