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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did John make in his first job in politics?
(a) Contacts.
(b) Enemies.
(c) History.
(d) Money.

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

3. What happened to John when he was 14?
(a) His parents divorced.
(b) His mother took him out of school.
(c) His father died.
(d) His father was sent to Vietnam.

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

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

6. What had John and Kathy tried to do, that had been a failure?
(a) Questioned the election results.
(b) Had a child.
(c) Raised money.
(d) Made love.

7. What does Claude Rasmussen recommend John do in Chapter 15, "What the Questions Were"?
(a) Stop drinking so much.
(b) Look for Kathy.
(c) Try to remember.
(d) Show some concern.

8. What does John omit from his letters to Kathy from Vietnam?
(a) Descriptions of his affection for her.
(b) Scenes of carnage.
(c) Reminiscences of their time together.
(d) Discussion of the future.

9. How old is Kathy at the beginning of In the Lake of the Woods?
(a) 38.
(b) 33.
(c) 28.
(d) 43.

10. What did John's campaign manager call John's opponent's tactics?
(a) Ambush politics.
(b) Bare-knuckle politics.
(c) Personal politics.
(d) Take no prisoners politics.

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

12. What does the author interject about Kathy's disappearance?
(a) That it was just a matter of time until her disappearance was understood.
(b) That it might not have happened the way John thinks.
(c) That John was going to have to do something about the witnesses to her disappearance.
(d) That John knew very well what happened.

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

14. Where did the sheriff come out to the lake from?
(a) Minneapolis.
(b) Baudette.
(c) St. Paul.
(d) Rainy River.

15. Why does John say he might have slept through the outboard motor starting on the boat?
(a) He had slept with earplugs.
(b) He had been ill.
(c) He had been drinking.
(d) The cabin was far from the lake.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kathy say in the letter John gets in Chapter 13, "The Nature of the Beast"?

2. What does John say about secrets?

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

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

5. What happens to John after reading Kathy's letter?

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