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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kathy suspect John of when he joins the military?
(a) Running from the law.
(b) Political aspirations.
(c) Murder.
(d) Deceitfulness.

2. 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.

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

4. What did John's father call him when John was a child?
(a) Slick.
(b) Fatty.
(c) Jiggling John.
(d) Nerd.

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

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

7. What does Arthur Lux say about Kathy?
(a) That she is probably fine.
(b) That he did everything he could to find her.
(c) That she will turn up one day.
(d) That she is probably dead.

8. Who is Kathy?
(a) John's wife.
(b) John's daughter.
(c) John's campaign manager.
(d) John's friend.

9. What is John's hypothesis in Chapter 9 "Hypothesis"?
(a) That he killed Kathy.
(b) That someone killed Kathy.
(c) That Kathy went to get help for him and was injured along the way.
(d) That Kathy just walked away from the cabin.

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

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

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

13. Where did John begin his political career?
(a) The military.
(b) The Minnesota Socialist Party.
(c) The Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Party.
(d) The Minnesota Republican Party.

14. 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 John was going to have to do something about the witnesses to her disappearance.
(c) That John knew very well what happened.
(d) That it might not have happened the way John thinks.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eleanor Wade say about her son?

2. What is the relationship between Arthur Lux and Vinny Pearson?

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

4. What cost John the victory in the election?

5. What does John do after being discharged from the military?

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