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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. How would you describe Eleanor Wade's contributions to Chapter 2?
(a) Testimony.
(b) Description.
(c) Criminal complaint.
(d) Epistle.

2. What did John's campaign manager call John's opponent's tactics?
(a) Take no prisoners politics.
(b) Bare-knuckle politics.
(c) Ambush politics.
(d) Personal politics.

3. When did John pass the bar?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1968.

4. When did John and Kathy know that the election was lost?
(a) Three days after the election.
(b) Election night.
(c) Six weeks after the election, when the last appeal was turned down.
(d) Weeks before election night.

5. What did John watch Weatherby do?
(a) Kill Kathy.
(b) Scalp a man.
(c) Hide in a ditch.
(d) Shoot two girls.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John think Kathy thinks of him?

2. Describe the narrator of In the Lake of the Woods.

3. What was John's nickname in Vietnam?

4. How does John describe the scene he encountered after reading Kathy's letter?

5. Who is Tony Carbo?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe John's relationship with his father.

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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