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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 happens to John after reading Kathy's letter?
(a) His father dies.
(b) He learns magic tricks.
(c) He loses the election.
(d) The massacre at Thuan Yen.

2. When do we discover that Kathy is missing?
(a) When Wade wakes up.
(b) When Wade describes pouring boiling water on the plants.
(c) When Vinny Pearson says that he thinks Wade killed her.
(d) When the sheriff shows up at John and Kathy's cabin.

3. What does John do the morning after the night of the boiling plants?
(a) Writes Kathy a letter.
(b) Goes for a hike.
(c) Sleeps in.
(d) Takes the boat out.

4. What does Claude Rasmussen recommend John do in Chapter 15, "What the Questions Were"?
(a) Try to remember.
(b) Stop drinking so much.
(c) Show some concern.
(d) Look for Kathy.

5. How does the narrator describe the campaigns Tony Carbo ran for John?
(a) Disorganized.
(b) Grassroots.
(c) Values-based.
(d) Slick, expensive.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did John and Kathy meet?

2. What happened when the 'secrets' were released before the election?

3. What does Kathy suspect John of when he joins the military?

4. Who is Arthur Lux?

5. What imagery does O'Brien use to convey the scene of John's anger and Kathy's reaction to it?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the setting of the opening scene of In the Lake of the Woods.

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

4. Why did John lose the election?

5. What is the problem with the hypothesis in Chapter 14?

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

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

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

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

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

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