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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator think happened to Kathy?
(a) She got in an accident.
(b) She passed out for lack of food and water.
(c) She got lost in the endless lake and islands.
(d) She was injured from John pouring boiling water on her.

2. How does Kathy feel about the gesture John made after she returned from Harmon?
(a) It makes her aware of her flaws.
(b) She feels reassured because it means John didn't know anything.
(c) It renews all her affection for John and his tenderness for her. She was disgusted with herself for cheating and then returning.
(d) She iss disgusted with herself for cheating and then returning.

3. How did Robert W. T'Souvas die?
(a) During an operation on his appendix.
(b) In a bar fight.
(c) In a car accident.
(d) From cancer.

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

5. What happens right before John's platoon is ordered back to Thuan Yen?
(a) A soldier was ambushed and killed.
(b) One of the soldiers killed a Vietnamese soldier.
(c) The men agreed to cover up the massacre.
(d) A soldier's foot was blown off.

6. How does Kathy tell Tony Carbo she felt after her affair with Harmon?
(a) Disgusted and dirty.
(b) Curious for more experience.
(c) Terrible.
(d) Secretly pleased with herself.

7. What is Kathy's feeling after John's appearance where she and Tony Carbo were gambling?
(a) Irritation.
(b) Affection.
(c) Respect.
(d) Disdain.

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

9. Who was the only soldier convicted for the Thuan Yen massacre?
(a) Wade.
(b) T'Souvas.
(c) Simpson.
(d) Calley.

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

11. How did John spend his time in eighth grade?
(a) Practicing basketball.
(b) Hunting.
(c) Reading.
(d) Practicing magic.

12. Where do the police look for Kathy?
(a) In her hometown.
(b) Around the cabin.
(c) In nearby islands.
(d) Where she went to college.

13. What does Kathy say when Tony Carbo says that John likes to stack the deck?
(a) That John doesn't cheat.
(b) That John can never hide his awkwardness.
(c) That John is a master of making the trick look easy.
(d) That she can always tell how John does his tricks.

14. Who was Sandra Karra?
(a) John's mother's friend.
(b) John's first girlfriend.
(c) John's school teacher.
(d) The woman at the magic shop.

15. Where does John sleep on his first night out from the cabin?
(a) An island.
(b) He doesn't sleep.
(c) In the boat.
(d) In a Canadian town.

Short Answer Questions

1. What comes out about Sorcerer in testimony during the court martial?

2. How does John spend his time in Chapter 19, "What was Found"?

3. What was it about going out with Harmon that excited Kathy, according to the narrator's hypothesis in Chapter 24?

4. What did Colonel William V. Wilson say about the massacre at Thuan Yen?

5. What does Arthur Lux want to talk to Patricia for?

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