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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 does the author interject about Kathy's disappearance?
(a) That John was going to have to do something about the witnesses to her disappearance.
(b) That it might not have happened the way John thinks.
(c) That John knew very well what happened.
(d) That it was just a matter of time until her disappearance was understood.

2. What does John do after being discharged from the military?
(a) Stalks Kathy.
(b) Catches Kathy in an affair.
(c) Surprises Kathy in her class.
(d) Visits his mother.

3. When did John and Kathy meet?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1972.

4. 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 the sheriff shows up at John and Kathy's cabin.
(d) When Vinny Pearson says that he thinks Wade killed her.

5. Why does John say he might have slept through the outboard motor starting on the boat?
(a) He had been drinking.
(b) He had slept with earplugs.
(c) The cabin was far from the lake.
(d) He had been ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Kathy's bid secret?

2. Who is Kathy?

3. What did John's campaign manager call John's opponent's tactics?

4. What does John do the morning after the night of the boiling plants?

5. What did John's father call him when John was a child?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What limits are imposed on the omniscience of the narrator?

3. What did John tell himself about what he did to Weatherby?

4. Why did John join the military?

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

6. What does John think about Kathy's absence?

7. What indication does the book give us about what really happened?

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

9. What is Claude Rasmussen's opinion about what happened?

10. Describe the importance of the abortion Kathy had.

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