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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator place John and Kathy in his last hypothesis?
(a) A foreign country.
(b) California.
(c) Around the corner from their old home.
(d) Canada.

2. What did John tell Kathy about why he re-enlisted?
(a) He said he was still looking for something.
(b) He did not explain.
(c) He said he wanted to see more of the war and get a promotion.
(d) He said he needed closure.

3. How does Claude Rasmussen refer to Canada in his note to John?
(a) A good place to start over.
(b) A good place to find yourself.
(c) A good place to find things.
(d) A good place to get lost.

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

5. What does Arthur Lux want to talk to Patricia for?
(a) Clues to where Kathy might be.
(b) Incriminating evidence against John.
(c) Background information.
(d) Helping him look for Kathy.

6. What does the narrator say was found, in Chapter 19, "What was Found"?
(a) Wreckage of the boat.
(b) Kathy's clothing.
(c) Life preservers.
(d) No sign.

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

8. What does John point out to Patricia about Kathy?
(a) That she hadn't left any sign.
(b) That she loved him deeply.
(c) That she had an affair.
(d) That she hated politics.

9. What do PFC Thinbill and John agree to do the night after the massacre?
(a) Pray for forgiveness.
(b) Tell the truth.
(c) Cover it up.
(d) Kill Calley.

10. 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 lost in the endless lake and islands.
(d) She got in an accident.

11. What did Vernado Simpson claim responsibility for?
(a) 2 civilian deaths.
(b) Orchestrating the massacre.
(c) 25 civilian deaths.
(d) Urging the men to massacre the villagers.

12. What does Claude Rasmussen tell John on the radio?
(a) The police are giving up on the search for Kathy.
(b) The police are calling members of his platoon from Vietnam.
(c) Vinny Pearson has been fired for exceeding his authority in searching the cabin.
(d) The police are tearing apart the cabin and the surroundings.

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

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

15. What did Colonel William V. Wilson say about the massacre at Thuan Yen?
(a) He hoped it was all true so he could make an example of the soldiers responsible.
(b) He hoped it was untrue.
(c) He had seen similar things before.
(d) He had restrained just such an impulse in his own men once.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did John think about the work he did at his desk job?

2. How did John's platoon try to block the stench of the dead?

3. Why is Patricia angry with John when she arrives?

4. What did Kathy tell Harmon on the fourth day together?

5. What is the narrator's last hypothesis?

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