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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kathy say in the letter John gets in Chapter 13, "The Nature of the Beast"?
(a) That she is waiting for him.
(b) That she needs freedom from him.
(c) That she wants to get married.
(d) That she met someone else.

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

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

4. What does John notice the morning after the night of the boiling plants?
(a) The open door.
(b) Blood stains on the counter.
(c) The smell of ammonia.
(d) Animal sounds.

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

6. Why is it important that we know Kathy's physical measurements?
(a) Wade is trying to establish certain facts.
(b) She goes missing from time to time, and has to be found.
(c) She is wanted by the law.
(d) Wade is shopping for a dress for her.

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

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

9. What did John say about the thing he arranged for Kathy?
(a) It was the best way.
(b) It was bad timing.
(c) It was good for her character.
(d) It was worth the separation.

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

11. 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.

12. What does John tell Kathy about in his letters from Vietnam?
(a) The pains he suffers.
(b) His experiences killing people.
(c) His love for her.
(d) The war.

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

14. What happened when the 'secrets' were released before the election?
(a) Kathy abandoned him.
(b) Supporters rallied around him.
(c) John's family disowned him.
(d) Friends stole away.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What evidence did the clerk from town contribute to the discussion Arthur Lux and Vinny Pearson had with John?

3. What did John watch Weatherby do?

4. How do John and Kathy deal with the fact that their dreams are impossible for the moment?

5. How did John react when he and his company were caught in a firefight?

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