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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 does Patricia say about her sister?
(a) That she was in danger.
(b) That she was a good person.
(c) That she deserved better than John.
(d) That she had an image of her on an island.

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

3. What trait of John's intensified after his father's death?
(a) Secrecy.
(b) Sentimentalism.
(c) Need for attention.
(d) Fantasy.

4. What does Arthur Lux tell John when John goes to meet Patricia's arrival?
(a) That Kathy will turn up.
(b) That people get lost here all the time.
(c) That he suspects her of murder.
(d) That he believes in him as a politician.

5. Why is it impossible for John and Kathy to do the things they dream about doing?
(a) They are in debt.
(b) John is drinking too much.
(c) They are fleeing from the authorities.
(d) Kathy is ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John remember about the night of the boiling plants after Arthur Lux and Vinny Pearson leave?

2. What is the result of O'Brien titling more than one chapter "Hypothesis"?

3. What does John tell Kathy about in his letters from Vietnam?

4. Where did John begin his political career?

5. How do John and Kathy deal with the fact that their dreams are impossible for the moment?

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