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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 does John notice the morning after the night of the boiling plants?
(a) The open door.
(b) Animal sounds.
(c) The smell of ammonia.
(d) Blood stains on the counter.

2. Where does John promise to take Kathy?
(a) Venice.
(b) Verona.
(c) Versailles.
(d) Paris.

3. What does Kathy suspect John of when he joins the military?
(a) Political aspirations.
(b) Running from the law.
(c) Deceitfulness.
(d) Murder.

4. Why is John feeling humiliated?
(a) He lost by a landslide.
(b) He was exposed as a phony.
(c) He was arrested for money laundering.
(d) He was caught in an affair.

5. What did John do in the middle of the night?
(a) Pours boiling water on Kathy's face.
(b) Pours boiling water on his pictures.
(c) Pours boiling water on the houseplants.
(d) Pours boiling water on his hands.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John tell Kathy about in his letters from Vietnam?

2. What has just taken place when In the Lake of the Woods begins?

3. What shape does John's awareness of his action take?

4. When did John and Kathy know that the election was lost?

5. What does John say about secrets?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did John join the military?

2. What happens shortly after John got this letter from Kathy?

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

4. When did the Wades discover that the election was lost?

5. What was John's experience of Vietnam like, and what did Weatherby have to do with his experience?

6. Describe the difference between Arthur Lux and Vinny Pearson.

7. Describe John's relationship with his father.

8. Describe the importance of the abortion Kathy had.

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

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

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