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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 Patricia say about the point John brings up about Kathy in Chapter 19, "What was Found"?
(a) That the affair was an attempt to get him to wake up.
(b) That she never believed her sister really loved John.
(c) That Kathy was crafty, and probably left a sign somewhere.
(d) That she loved politics.

2. Where was Kathy when John made his concession speech on election night?
(a) At home.
(b) At her sister's house.
(c) By his side.
(d) At a fundraiser.

3. What does the narrator speculate Kathy was thinking about in the scenario he lays out?
(a) College.
(b) Harmon.
(c) Having a baby.
(d) Vietnam.

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

5. What parallel does Patricia draw between John and Kathy?
(a) John's career was the equivalent of Kathy's affair.
(b) John's violent past was the equivalent of Kathy's violent future.
(c) John's magic was the analogous to Kathy's forgiveness of him.
(d) John's lies were the equivalent to Kathy's secrets.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John tell Claude Rasmussen after talking with Patricia?

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

3. What does the narrator say happened to Kathy in Chapter 24, "Hypothesis"?

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

5. What did Deborah Lindquist say Kathy called John in college?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do we know for sure at the end of the book?

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

3. Why did John reenlist after his first tour in Vietnam?

4. What did Tony Carbo tell John and Kathy on the night of the election?

5. What did John and his company do after the massacre?

6. Describe John's departure from Lake of the Woods.

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

8. Describe Kathy's feelings for Harmon, according to the narrator's hypothesis in Chapter 18.

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

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

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