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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) The police are tearing apart the cabin and the surroundings.
(d) Vinny Pearson has been fired for exceeding his authority in searching the cabin.

2. What do Claude and Ruth do in Chapter 19, "What was Found"?
(a) Cook for John.
(b) Man the phones.
(c) Watch the news.
(d) Search the lake for Kathy.

3. What does Tony Carbo say John does not believe in?
(a) Honesty.
(b) People.
(c) God.
(d) Luck.

4. 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 is a master of making the trick look easy.
(c) That John can never hide his awkwardness.
(d) That John doesn't cheat.

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

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

7. How does Arthur Lux say John might counter some of the rumors about his role in Kathy's disappearance?
(a) By calling in more searchers.
(b) By searching on the lake.
(c) By bringing his people from St. Paul.
(d) By staying near the phone.

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

9. What did John notice after the massacre?
(a) The smell of blood.
(b) The heat of the sun.
(c) The scent of coming rain.
(d) The sound of helicopters.

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

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

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

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

14. What does John tell Claude Rasmussen in response?
(a) That he will be gone before anyone finds anything.
(b) That the police won't find anything.
(c) That Kathy might still turn up.
(d) That his friends from Vietnam won't talk.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did John do at his desk job?

2. How long before he left Vietnam did John get a desk job?

3. What does Eleanor Wade say about why her husband killed himself?

4. What evidence does the narrator describe for this hypothesis?

5. Where do John and Kathy go immediately after the concession speech?

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