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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What did John watch Weatherby do?
(a) Scalp a man.
(b) Shoot two girls.
(c) Hide in a ditch.
(d) Kill Kathy.
2. Who does John call after talking with Claude Rasmussen?
(a) His lawyer.
(b) His mother.
(c) Kathy's mother.
(d) Kathy's sister.
3. How many times did John wake up during the night in Chapter 8?
(a) He never went to sleep.
(b) Three times.
(c) Twice.
(d) He didn't wake up till morning.
4. What does John notice the morning after the night of the boiling plants?
(a) The smell of ammonia.
(b) The open door.
(c) Blood stains on the counter.
(d) Animal sounds.
5. How would you describe Eleanor Wade's contributions to Chapter 2?
(a) Criminal complaint.
(b) Epistle.
(c) Testimony.
(d) Description.
6. 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 is waiting for him.
(c) That she wants to get married.
(d) That she needs freedom from him.
7. What is the result of O'Brien titling more than one chapter "Hypothesis"?
(a) We lose our sense of time.
(b) We get confused about where the narrative is taking us.
(c) We doubt the narrator's credibility.
(d) We return to the same question over and over.
8. How tall is Kathy?
(a) Five eight.
(b) Five two.
(c) Five four.
(d) Five six.
9. What does the narrator hypothesize in Chapter 14, "Hypothesis"?
(a) That Kathy got in a boat accident.
(b) That John dumped Kathy's body in the lake.
(c) That Kathy died in her sleep.
(d) That Kathy wanted to hide from John and have her life back.
10. How do John and Kathy treat each other by their seventh day at the cabin?
(a) They are indifferent to each other.
(b) They are careful with each other.
(c) They are intimate with each other.
(d) They are hostile toward each other.
11. When did John pass the bar?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1968.
12. What did Kathy have at age 34?
(a) Smallpox.
(b) An appendectomy.
(c) An abortion.
(d) Pneumonia.
13. What imagery does O'Brien use to convey the scene of John's anger and Kathy's reaction to it?
(a) The comparison of John's pain to electric eels.
(b) The sound of screaming.
(c) The sound of water splashing.
(d) The scent of wet wool.
14. What does Eleanor Wade say about her son?
(a) That he would pay the money he owed.
(b) That he was brave and intelligent.
(c) That he couldn't have hurt Kathy.
(d) That he was not a liar.
15. What does John wonder about after Kathy has gone missing?
(a) What Kathy thought of him.
(b) Whether Kathy had been having an affair.
(c) Where he could go to escape suspicion for her disappearance.
(d) What would have happened if they'd made love.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Kathy suspect John of when he joins the military?
2. What does John do after being discharged from the military?
3. Why is John feeling humiliated?
4. What is the relationship between Arthur Lux and Vinny Pearson?
5. When does In the Lake of the Woods begin?
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