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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. Where would investigators have to look for Kathy's body, according the hypothesis in Chapter 27?
(a) Beneath the cabin.
(b) The bottom of the lake.
(c) In a shallow grave on one of the islands.
(d) Canada.

2. What comes out about Sorcerer in testimony during the court martial?
(a) That he killed civilians.
(b) That he falsified his records.
(c) That he killed women and children.
(d) That he killed one of his own.

3. What does the narrator suggest in Chapter 18, "Hypothesis"?
(a) That Kathy was suicidal.
(b) That Kathy ran aground or ran out of fuel.
(c) That Kathy was abducted.
(d) That Kathy did not have an accident.

4. What does Kathy do after returning from Harmon?
(a) Has a long bath.
(b) Reads in bed.
(c) Makes love with John.
(d) Works out vigorously.

5. What happens to the radio on John's boat, ultimately?
(a) John gets beyond range for any transmission to get through.
(b) John smashes it.
(c) He disconnects it and drops it overboard.
(d) It breaks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gesture does John make after Kathy returned from seeing Harmon?

2. How does the narrator describe the killing at Thuan Yen?

3. How does Tony Carbo describe his relationship with John to Kathy?

4. Where did Kathy spend time with Harmon?

5. Where was Kathy when John made his concession speech on election night?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does sorcerer admit to in the evidence from the court martial hearings?

2. Describe the night in Las Vegas when John found Kathy and Tony Carbo gambling.

3. What is the narrator's last hypothesis?

4. Describe the arrangements John makes for the day after Patricia's arrival?

5. What does Patricia say to John when she arrives?

6. Describe the scene of the massacre as the evidence reveals it in Chapter 21.

7. What did the evidence presented in Chapter 25 indicate about the massacre in Thuan Yen?

8. What does Arthur Lux tell John when John goes into town to meet Patricia?

9. What are Arthur Lux and Vinny Pearson's opinions about John according to the evidence presented in Chapter 25?

10. What are Kathy's plans, according to the hypothesis in Chapter 18?

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