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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 relationship with his father like?
(a) Disdainful.
(b) Distrustful.
(c) Affectionate.
(d) Disjointed.

2. What was John's childhood hobby?
(a) Collecting stamps.
(b) Magic.
(c) Model airplanes.
(d) Baseball.

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

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

5. How do John and Kathy treat each other by their seventh day at the cabin?
(a) They are hostile toward each other.
(b) They are indifferent to each other.
(c) They are intimate with each other.
(d) They are careful with each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John notice the morning after the night of the boiling plants?

2. What does John remember from the night of the boiling water?

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

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

5. What happened to soldier Weatherby?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why did John lose the election?

4. Why did John join the military?

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

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

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

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

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

10. Describe the importance of the abortion Kathy had.

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