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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kathy do after returning from Harmon?
(a) Works out vigorously.
(b) Reads in bed.
(c) Has a long bath.
(d) Makes love with John.

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

3. Why does Tony Carbo say he didn't leave John earlier than the election night?
(a) He wanted to watch the whole thing play out.
(b) He needed the money.
(c) He is in love with Kathy.
(d) He needed to finish the job.

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

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

6. What is Kathy's relationship with Harmon, in the hypothesis in Chapter 24?
(a) She can't remember him.
(b) She wants to talk to him.
(c) She still sees his face.
(d) She looks for him in crowds.

7. What does Arthur Lux tell John when John goes to meet Patricia's arrival?
(a) That people get lost here all the time.
(b) That Kathy will turn up.
(c) That he believes in him as a politician.
(d) That he suspects her of murder.

8. What did PFC Thinbill tell John?
(a) That they were going to get revenge at Thuan Yen.
(b) That the town was going to be a bloodbath.
(c) That there would be no civilians. That the town was friendly.
(d) That the enemy had infiltrated the civilians.

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

10. How did John's platoon try to block the stench of the dead?
(a) By burning everything.
(b) By tying rags around their faces.
(c) By spraying the bodies with lye.
(d) By covering the bodies with ash.

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

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

13. What did John do at his desk job?
(a) Forged papers for his own discharge.
(b) Removed his name from the platoon rolls.
(c) Removed all reference to the massacre.
(d) Transferred himself to another platoon.

14. What changed John's mind from what he and Calley agreed to?
(a) His fear of prison.
(b) His desire to tell the truth.
(c) His sense of innocence.
(d) His political plans.

15. What happened when John showed up where Kathy and Tony Carbo were gambling?
(a) He told Kathy to stop and save her money.
(b) He saved Kathy from losing more money.
(c) He ended Kathy's winning streak.
(d) He got angry at Kathy for risking their money.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What technique does the narrator use in narrating the Hypothesis chapters?

4. How does Kathy tell Tony Carbo she felt after her affair with Harmon?

5. What do Claude and Ruth do in Chapter 19, "What was Found"?

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