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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was John's childhood hobby?
(a) Baseball.
(b) Collecting stamps.
(c) Magic.
(d) Model airplanes.

3. What was Kathy's bid secret?
(a) That she was pregnant.
(b) That she was glad John's political days were over.
(c) That she had been having an affair.
(d) That she was running away from the law.

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

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

6. Who is Arthur Lux?
(a) John's campaign manager.
(b) Lake of the Woods sheriff.
(c) A gas station owner.
(d) An FBI investigator

7. What does Claude Rasmussen say about Vinny Pearson's suspicions?
(a) He says that Vinny Pearson is a difficult person to deal with, everyone thinks so.
(b) He doesn't believe John had anything to do with Kathy's disappearance.
(c) He says it's hard not to come to the same conclusion.
(d) He says Vinny Pearson distrusts every outsider.

8. What does John do after being discharged from the military?
(a) Catches Kathy in an affair.
(b) Surprises Kathy in her class.
(c) Stalks Kathy.
(d) Visits his mother.

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

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

11. Where did John and Kathy meet?
(a) Washington D.C.
(b) University of Minnesota.
(c) Vietnam.
(d) Lake of the Woods.

12. How did John react when he and his company were caught in a firefight?
(a) He killed everyone he saw.
(b) He cowered in a ditch.
(c) He was brave and composed under fire.
(d) He shot at everything that moved.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does John respond to the clerk's evidence?

2. What was John's relationship with his father like?

3. Why is John feeling humiliated?

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

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

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