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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21 through 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vinny think happened?
(a) John killed Kathy and dumped her body.
(b) Kathy got in a boat accident.
(c) Kathy took the chance to disappear into Canada.
(d) Kathy framed John for her own murder.

2. How do John and Kathy deal with the fact that their dreams are impossible for the moment?
(a) They don't talk about it.
(b) They lament it again and again.
(c) They are brutal with each other, trading accusations and insults.
(d) They are careful about bringing up the topic gently.

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

4. When do we discover that Kathy is missing?
(a) When Wade wakes up.
(b) When the sheriff shows up at John and Kathy's cabin.
(c) When Wade describes pouring boiling water on the plants.
(d) When Vinny Pearson says that he thinks Wade killed her.

5. How did John cope with the event that took place when he was 14?
(a) He studied the Vietnam War in school.
(b) He befriended the neighborhood housewives.
(c) He pretended his father was still alive.
(d) He moved back and forth between his parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. How would you describe Eleanor Wade's contributions to Chapter 2?

2. What was John's relationship with his father like?

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

4. Who is Arthur Lux?

5. How does Kathy tell Tony Carbo she felt after her affair with Harmon?

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