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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 did John think about the work he did at his desk job?
(a) He would never be tracked down as Sorcerer.
(b) It was not foolproof, but it freed him.
(c) He worried only about being recognized by his comrades.
(d) He was anxious about the papers stored at sites he could not get to.

2. Where does the narrator say Kathy might have headed toward?
(a) Kenora.
(b) Rainy River.
(c) Three Rivers.
(d) Buckete Island.

3. What happens right before John's platoon is ordered back to Thuan Yen?
(a) A soldier's foot was blown off.
(b) A soldier was ambushed and killed.
(c) One of the soldiers killed a Vietnamese soldier.
(d) The men agreed to cover up the massacre.

4. What fantasy had Tony Carbo been harboring?
(a) That he would lose weight and Kathy would run away with him.
(b) That John would die in office and Tony would take over.
(c) That someone would kill John leaving Kathy for him.
(d) That John would take him all the way to the White House.

5. What did Colonel William V. Wilson say about the massacre at Thuan Yen?
(a) He hoped it was untrue.
(b) He had restrained just such an impulse in his own men once.
(c) He hoped it was all true so he could make an example of the soldiers responsible.
(d) He had seen similar things before.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where would investigators have to look for Kathy's body, according the hypothesis in Chapter 27?

2. What does John point out to Patricia about Kathy?

3. Who was the only soldier convicted for the Thuan Yen massacre?

4. What does Arthur Lux tell John when John goes to meet Patricia's arrival?

5. What does Patricia say about the point John brings up about Kathy in Chapter 19, "What was Found"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator speculate happened, in the hypothesis in Chapter 27?

4. Describe the conversation Kathy and Tony Carbo have after John finds them gambling together.

5. What do Sandra Karra and Deborah Lindquist say about John's talents as a magician in the Evidence chapter, chapter 20?

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

7. Describe the relationship between John and Vinny Pearson in Chapter 23, "Where They Looked".

8. What does the narrator theorize in the hypothesis in Chapter 18?

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

10. What was John like in the eighth grade?

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