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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What was it about going out with Harmon that excited Kathy, according to the narrator's hypothesis in Chapter 24?
(a) Harmon's ease with money.
(b) Harmon's good looks.
(c) The danger of cheating on John.
(d) Harmon's sense of humor.

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

9. How does the narrator describe the killing at Thuan Yen?
(a) It was premeditated and cold-blooded.
(b) It was over in a few minutes.
(c) It was chaotic.
(d) It went on for four hours.

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

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

13. What does Tony Carbo say in response to John's question?
(a) He says he is a pig and couldn't help himself.
(b) He says he can still get John on the ballot for state representative.
(c) He says that he had been recruited.
(d) He says that John is finished in politics.

14. What food does Kathy have, in the scenario the narrator describes in Chapter 18, "Hypothesis"?
(a) Sandwiches.
(b) Oatmeal.
(c) Lifesavers.
(d) Fish.

15. What does Calley say about the massacre?
(a) That there aren't any innocents in a war zone.
(b) That the guilty shouldn't cast stones.
(c) That killing is a national process.
(d) That in the scheme of things their actions were meaningless.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say Kathy might have done in Chapter 22, "Hypothesis"?

2. What literary term describes the description of Kathy's return from her time with Harmon?

3. How does Arthur Lux say John might counter some of the rumors about his role in Kathy's disappearance?

4. What does the narrator suggest in Chapter 18, "Hypothesis"?

5. How does Claude Rasmussen refer to Canada in his note to John?

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