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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Patricia say about her sister?
(a) That she was a good person.
(b) That she was in danger.
(c) That she had an image of her on an island.
(d) That she deserved better than John.

2. What does the narrator speculate Kathy was thinking about in the scenario he lays out?
(a) Harmon.
(b) College.
(c) Vietnam.
(d) Having a baby.

3. How long do Patricia and John search for Kathy for?
(a) A month.
(b) Three days.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) Three weeks.

4. Why does Claude Rasmussen say he will go with John?
(a) So he doesn't fight with Patricia.
(b) So he doesn't hurt himself.
(c) So he doesn't get lost.
(d) So her doesn't hurt the boat.

5. How long before he left Vietnam did John get a desk job?
(a) Two months.
(b) A year.
(c) A month.
(d) Two weeks.

6. What does Arthur Lux tell John about the election?
(a) John deserved to lose.
(b) John deserved better.
(c) John deserved to be arrested.
(d) John deserved to be celebrated.

7. How did John's father die?
(a) He shot himself.
(b) He hanged himself.
(c) Heart attack.
(d) Cancer.

8. What parallel does Patricia draw between John and Kathy?
(a) John's magic was the analogous to Kathy's forgiveness of him.
(b) John's career was the equivalent of Kathy's affair.
(c) John's lies were the equivalent to Kathy's secrets.
(d) John's violent past was the equivalent of Kathy's violent future.

9. What did John think about the work he did at his desk job?
(a) He would never be tracked down as Sorcerer.
(b) He worried only about being recognized by his comrades.
(c) It was not foolproof, but it freed him.
(d) He was anxious about the papers stored at sites he could not get to.

10. Where did Kathy spend time with Harmon?
(a) Loon Point, Maine.
(b) Three Rivers, Minnesota.
(c) New York city.
(d) Berkeley, California.

11. Where would investigators have to look for Kathy's body, according the hypothesis in Chapter 27?
(a) The bottom of the lake.
(b) Canada.
(c) In a shallow grave on one of the islands.
(d) Beneath the cabin.

12. What fantasy had Tony Carbo been harboring?
(a) That someone would kill John leaving Kathy for him.
(b) That he would lose weight and Kathy would run away with him.
(c) That John would take him all the way to the White House.
(d) That John would die in office and Tony would take over.

13. What did John's father call him when he (John) was in eighth grade?
(a) Jiggling John.
(b) Senator.
(c) Javelin John.
(d) Sorcerer.

14. What comes out about Sorcerer in testimony during the court martial?
(a) That he killed civilians.
(b) That he falsified his records.
(c) That he killed one of his own.
(d) That he killed women and children.

15. What does the narrator say happened to Kathy in Chapter 24, "Hypothesis"?
(a) That Kathy is stranded on an island.
(b) That Kathy's boat overturned and sank.
(c) That Kathy killed herself.
(d) That Kathy is in Las Vegas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John say in response to Patricia's anger?

2. What does Tony Carbo say John does not believe in?

3. What does the narrator say was found, in Chapter 19, "What was Found"?

4. What gesture does John make after Kathy returned from seeing Harmon?

5. Where does the narrator say Kathy might have headed toward?

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