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

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

3. When did John and Kathy meet?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1961.

4. What did John arrange for Kathy, even though it saddened him?
(a) A job away from him.
(b) An adoption.
(c) An abortion.
(d) A job in politics.

5. Why is it impossible for John and Kathy to do the things they dream about doing?
(a) Kathy is ill.
(b) They are in debt.
(c) John is drinking too much.
(d) They are fleeing from the authorities.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to John when he was 14?

2. What is John's hypothesis in Chapter 9 "Hypothesis"?

3. How many times did John wake up during the night in Chapter 8?

4. What does Kathy say in the letter John gets in Chapter 13, "The Nature of the Beast"?

5. What do John and Kathy do on their seventh day at the cabin?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does the narrator says that Kathy might have gone in his hypothesis in Chapter 9?

2. How does the narrator describe Kathy's feelings in the hypothesis in Chapter 9?

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

4. Describe John's relationship with his father.

5. What do we learn about John's character from the evidence and narrative?

6. What did John tell himself about what he did to Weatherby?

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

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

9. What is Claude Rasmussen's opinion about what happened?

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

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