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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Where does John go the day after the night of the boiling plants?
(a) The sheriff.
(b) Claude Rasmussen's house.
(c) Home.
(d) Out on the lake.

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

6. What does John remember from the night of the boiling water?
(a) Killing Kathy.
(b) Admitting his crime in Vietnam.
(c) Pouring boiling water on himself.
(d) Kathy not being in bed.

7. 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.

8. When did John pass the bar?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1977.

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

10. What happens to John after reading Kathy's letter?
(a) His father dies.
(b) The massacre at Thuan Yen.
(c) He learns magic tricks.
(d) He loses the election.

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

12. 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.

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

14. What does John do the morning after the night of the boiling plants?
(a) Writes Kathy a letter.
(b) Takes the boat out.
(c) Goes for a hike.
(d) Sleeps in.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When is Chapter 8, "How the Night Passed", set?

2. Where is John in Chapter 13, "The Nature of the Beast"?

3. How many times did John wake up during the night in Chapter 8?

4. When did John and Kathy meet?

5. What does the author interject about Kathy's disappearance?

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