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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 was John's nickname in Vietnam?
(a) Senator.
(b) Mister.
(c) Lucky.
(d) Sorcerer.

2. What happened when the 'secrets' were released before the election?
(a) Kathy abandoned him.
(b) Supporters rallied around him.
(c) John's family disowned him.
(d) Friends stole away.

3. What is the relationship between Arthur Lux and Vinny Pearson?
(a) Lux gives Vinny Pearson freedom to ask John whatever he wants.
(b) Lux backs Vinny Pearson's aggressive questioning.
(c) Lux does not allow Vinny Pearson's distrustful questions.
(d) Lux threatens to fire Vinny Pearson if he keeps asking questions.

4. Who is Tony Carbo?
(a) John's campaign manager.
(b) John's attorney.
(c) John's accountant.
(d) John's friend.

5. What happened to soldier Weatherby?
(a) John shot him.
(b) John held him while he died.
(c) John recovered his body.
(d) John rescued him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did John say about the thing he arranged for Kathy?

2. What happened to John when he was 14?

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

4. What did Kathy have at age 34?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What do we know about the night of the boiling plants?

8. What do Arthur Lux and Vinny Pearson think happened to Kathy?

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

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

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