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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 Kathy's bid secret?
(a) That she was glad John's political days were over.
(b) That she had been having an affair.
(c) That she was running away from the law.
(d) That she was pregnant.

2. What do John and Kathy do on their seventh day at the cabin?
(a) Put in a garden.
(b) Read and sleep and make love.
(c) Clean the cabin.
(d) Swim and lie in the sun.

3. When is Chapter 8, "How the Night Passed", set?
(a) The night before Kathy's disappearance.
(b) The night when John returned from the military.
(c) The night when John and his company massacred the Vietnamese.
(d) The night when John lost the election.

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

5. Describe the narrator of In the Lake of the Woods.
(a) Third person omniscient.
(b) Third person limited.
(c) Second person.
(d) First person.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did John and Kathy meet?

2. What does John promise Kathy they will take on their travels?

3. Why is it impossible for John and Kathy to do the things they dream about doing?

4. Who is Tony Carbo?

5. How would you describe Eleanor Wade's contributions to Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why did John lose the election?

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

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

6. Why did John join the military?

7. Describe John's relationship with his father.

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

9. What additional information do we get about the night of the boiling plants?

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

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