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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say motivated John to join the military?
(a) Desire for structure.
(b) Desire for firepower.
(c) Desire for escape.
(d) Desire for distinction.

3. What does John promise Kathy they will take on their travels?
(a) Lots of children.
(b) A senator's authority.
(c) Their innocence.
(d) Lots of money.

4. What does John say about secrets?
(a) That he keeps them from himself.
(b) That he tells Kathy everything.
(c) That he doesn't keep them.
(d) That he doesn't share certain secrets.

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

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

7. Who does John call after talking with Claude Rasmussen?
(a) Kathy's mother.
(b) Kathy's sister.
(c) His lawyer.
(d) His mother.

8. What does the narrator hypothesize in Chapter 14, "Hypothesis"?
(a) That John dumped Kathy's body in the lake.
(b) That Kathy died in her sleep.
(c) That Kathy got in a boat accident.
(d) That Kathy wanted to hide from John and have her life back.

9. Who is Arthur Lux?
(a) A gas station owner.
(b) An FBI investigator
(c) Lake of the Woods sheriff.
(d) John's campaign manager.

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

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

12. What time did John get up after the night of the boiling plants?
(a) Nine.
(b) Noon.
(c) Afternoon.
(d) Six.

13. How tall is Kathy?
(a) Five two.
(b) Five eight.
(c) Five six.
(d) Five four.

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

15. What was John like in the beginning of his relationship with Kathy?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Obsessive.
(c) Hot and cold.
(d) Aloof.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did John and Kathy know that the election was lost?

2. How do John and Kathy treat each other by their seventh day at the cabin?

3. Why is it important that we know Kathy's physical measurements?

4. Who is Tony Carbo?

5. What shape does John's awareness of his action take?

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