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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Kathy's reaction to John and Tony Carbo's conversation?
(a) She walks out in disgust.
(b) She argues with both of them.
(c) She takes John's side against Tony Carbo.
(d) She tries to get both men to reason.

2. What does Calley order the men to do?
(a) Take trophies from the dead.
(b) Forget any atrocities.
(c) Plant weapons in the village.
(d) Clean up the village.

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

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

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

6. Where does the narrator say Kathy might have headed toward?
(a) Buckete Island.
(b) Kenora.
(c) Three Rivers.
(d) Rainy River.

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

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

9. Where would investigators have to look for Kathy's body, according the hypothesis in Chapter 27?
(a) In a shallow grave on one of the islands.
(b) Beneath the cabin.
(c) Canada.
(d) The bottom of the lake.

10. In the hypothesis in Chapter 27, what does John do?
(a) Files for divorce before going to Lake of the Woods.
(b) Pours boiling water on Kathy's face.
(c) Moves funds into an account Kathy could access from anywhere on the globe.
(d) Sleeps while Kathy packed and left.

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

12. 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.

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

14. What does John tell Claude Rasmussen after talking with Patricia?
(a) That he is going to call off the search.
(b) That he would like to use the boat for the next day.
(c) That Patricia will be in charge now.
(d) That he didn't kill Kathy.

15. What does John ask Tony Carbo in response to Tony Carbo's announcement?
(a) Couldn't he wait.
(b) Who will he be working for.
(c) Whether he really means to stand by him.
(d) What can be saved.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Vernado Simpson claim responsibility for?

2. How did John's father die?

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

4. What is Kathy's feeling after John's appearance where she and Tony Carbo were gambling?

5. What is Kathy's relationship with Harmon, in the hypothesis in Chapter 24?

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