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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 does John describe the scene he encountered after reading Kathy's letter?
(a) He says that no one was dying quietly.
(b) He says that no one was in control of their pain.
(c) He says that no one had been spared from suffering.
(d) He says that he and his company carried an enormous burden of suffering.

2. Who is John Wade?
(a) A fisherman.
(b) A politician.
(c) A soldier.
(d) A mechanic.

3. What did John say about the thing he arranged for Kathy?
(a) It was worth the separation.
(b) It was good for her character.
(c) It was the best way.
(d) It was bad timing.

4. What does John promise Kathy they will take on their travels?
(a) Lots of children.
(b) A senator's authority.
(c) Their innocence.
(d) Lots of money.

5. Why is it important that we know Kathy's physical measurements?
(a) She goes missing from time to time, and has to be found.
(b) She is wanted by the law.
(c) Wade is shopping for a dress for her.
(d) Wade is trying to establish certain facts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author interject about Kathy's disappearance?

2. Who is Harmon?

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

4. When is Chapter 8, "How the Night Passed", set?

5. What is the result of O'Brien titling more than one chapter "Hypothesis"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did John lose the election?

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

4. What is the narrator's hypothesis in Chapter 14?

5. Describe John's relationship with his father.

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

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

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

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

10. Why did John join the military?

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