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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did John watch Weatherby do?
(a) Hide in a ditch.
(b) Kill Kathy.
(c) Scalp a man.
(d) Shoot two girls.

2. What does the narrator say motivated John to join the military?
(a) Desire for escape.
(b) Desire for distinction.
(c) Desire for firepower.
(d) Desire for structure.

3. How did John cope with the event that took place when he was 14?
(a) He pretended his father was still alive.
(b) He befriended the neighborhood housewives.
(c) He studied the Vietnam War in school.
(d) He moved back and forth between his parents.

4. What did John's campaign manager call John's opponent's tactics?
(a) Personal politics.
(b) Ambush politics.
(c) Take no prisoners politics.
(d) Bare-knuckle politics.

5. What time did John get up after the night of the boiling plants?
(a) Noon.
(b) Afternoon.
(c) Six.
(d) Nine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does John say he might have slept through the outboard motor starting on the boat?

2. Why is it important that we know Kathy's physical measurements?

3. What does John remember from the night of the boiling water?

4. What does John notice the morning after the night of the boiling plants?

5. Where is John in Chapter 13, "The Nature of the Beast"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How well are John and Kathy doing, at coping with events?

2. What does Kathy tell John in a letter to him in Vietnam?

3. What indication does the book give us about what really happened?

4. What is the narrator's hypothesis in Chapter 14?

5. What did John discover when he returned from the war?

6. Describe the effect of reading In the Lake of the Woods.

7. How does Kathy die in the hypothesis in Chapter 14?

8. What sources does the narrator use, to piece together the story?

9. What limits are imposed on the omniscience of the narrator?

10. What do we hear about Weatherby that adds to what we heard about earlier?

(see the answer keys)

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