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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to soldier Weatherby?
(a) John shot him.
(b) John rescued him.
(c) John held him while he died.
(d) John recovered his body.

2. Who is Harmon?
(a) A dentist.
(b) John's friend.
(c) Kathy's professor.
(d) John's campaign manager.

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

4. What did John do in the middle of the night?
(a) Pours boiling water on Kathy's face.
(b) Pours boiling water on his pictures.
(c) Pours boiling water on his hands.
(d) Pours boiling water on the houseplants.

5. How does John respond to the clerk's evidence?
(a) He says that he and Kathy had a rough sense of humor.
(b) He says that Kathy was playful, and acted in college.
(c) He says that Kathy had never threatened to leave him.
(d) He says the fight was nothing.

6. How do John and Kathy treat each other by their seventh day at the cabin?
(a) They are hostile toward each other.
(b) They are careful with each other.
(c) They are intimate with each other.
(d) They are indifferent to each other.

7. What evidence did the clerk from town contribute to the discussion Arthur Lux and Vinny Pearson had with John?
(a) That John and Kathy had been arguing.
(b) That Kathy had threatened to leave John.
(c) That John had threatened to kill Kathy.
(d) That Kathy had threatened to ruin John's career.

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

9. Where does John promise to take Kathy?
(a) Verona.
(b) Versailles.
(c) Venice.
(d) Paris.

10. Describe the narrator of In the Lake of the Woods.
(a) Third person omniscient.
(b) Third person limited.
(c) First person.
(d) Second person.

11. Which of these is NOT a secret John keeps from everyone?
(a) What his father called him as a child.
(b) That he is at home in Vietnam.
(c) His role in the events at Thuan Yen.
(d) What happened to Weatherby.

12. Why is John feeling humiliated?
(a) He lost by a landslide.
(b) He was exposed as a phony.
(c) He was arrested for money laundering.
(d) He was caught in an affair.

13. What does Kathy suspect John of when he joins the military?
(a) Political aspirations.
(b) Running from the law.
(c) Deceitfulness.
(d) Murder.

14. How many times did John wake up during the night in Chapter 8?
(a) He didn't wake up till morning.
(b) Twice.
(c) He never went to sleep.
(d) Three times.

15. What did one of the members of John's company have attached to his helmet?
(a) Condoms.
(b) A ponytail from a Vietnamese victim.
(c) Letters from home.
(d) Pistol rounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did John's father call him when John was a child?

2. Where did the sheriff come out to the lake from?

3. What does John do after being discharged from the military?

4. Why does John say he might have slept through the outboard motor starting on the boat?

5. Where does John go the day after the night of the boiling plants?

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