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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happened to soldier Weatherby?
(a) John recovered his body.
(b) John shot him.
(c) John held him while he died.
(d) John rescued him.

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

9. What does John remember about the night of the boiling plants after Arthur Lux and Vinny Pearson leave?
(a) Walking into the bedroom.
(b) Carrying Kathy.
(c) Digging a hole.
(d) Taking the boat out.

10. Describe the narrator of In the Lake of the Woods.
(a) Third person omniscient.
(b) Second person.
(c) First person.
(d) Third person limited.

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

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

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

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

15. What did John watch Weatherby do?
(a) Hide in a ditch.
(b) Kill Kathy.
(c) Shoot two girls.
(d) Scalp a man.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does John call after talking with Claude Rasmussen?

3. How does John describe his memory of the night of the boiling water?

4. When do we discover that Kathy is missing?

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

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