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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are the soldiers from John's outfit being questioned in Chapter 16, "Evidence"?
(a) In an investigation into Kathy's disappearance.
(b) In a newspaper article.
(c) In a Congressional investigation.
(d) In a court martial hearing.

2. How does the narrator describe the campaigns Tony Carbo ran for John?
(a) Disorganized.
(b) Values-based.
(c) Slick, expensive.
(d) Grassroots.

3. What do John and Kathy do on their seventh day at the cabin?
(a) Read and sleep and make love.
(b) Put in a garden.
(c) Swim and lie in the sun.
(d) Clean the cabin.

4. What did John arrange for Kathy, even though it saddened him?
(a) A job in politics.
(b) A job away from him.
(c) An abortion.
(d) An adoption.

5. What shape does John's awareness of his action take?
(a) Horror at the sight of what he's done.
(b) Repugnance from the smell of dead foliage.
(c) Sorrow over the redness and blisters on Kathy's skin.
(d) Terror at the silence coming from Kathy now.

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

7. What was Kathy's bid secret?
(a) That she was pregnant.
(b) That she had been having an affair.
(c) That she was glad John's political days were over.
(d) That she was running away from the law.

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

9. When did John and Kathy know that the election was lost?
(a) Weeks before election night.
(b) Election night.
(c) Three days after the election.
(d) Six weeks after the election, when the last appeal was turned down.

10. Who is John Wade?
(a) A politician.
(b) A mechanic.
(c) A fisherman.
(d) A soldier.

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

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

13. What has just taken place when In the Lake of the Woods begins?
(a) A birth.
(b) A massacre.
(c) Primary elections.
(d) A murder.

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

15. What does Claude Rasmussen say about Vinny Pearson's suspicions?
(a) He says it's hard not to come to the same conclusion.
(b) He doesn't believe John had anything to do with Kathy's disappearance.
(c) He says Vinny Pearson distrusts every outsider.
(d) He says that Vinny Pearson is a difficult person to deal with, everyone thinks so.

Short Answer Questions

1. How tall is Kathy?

2. What is John's hypothesis in Chapter 9 "Hypothesis"?

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

4. What does Arthur Lux say about Kathy?

5. Describe the narrator of In the Lake of the Woods.

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