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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 Claude Rasmussen refer to Canada in his note to John?
(a) A good place to find yourself.
(b) A good place to get lost.
(c) A good place to find things.
(d) A good place to start over.

2. What did the soldiers say about the massacre at Thuan Yen?
(a) That they were collectively mad from weeks of patrol.
(b) That they honestly expected to find weapons in the village.
(c) That they genuinely believed the villagers were Communists.
(d) That they wanted revenge for constant ambushes.

3. What is the narrator's last hypothesis?
(a) That John and Kathy agreed to go into the lake together.
(b) That John and Kathy ran away together.
(c) That Kathy simply disappeared, almost as if by magic.
(d) That John killed Kathy.

4. What did John do at his desk job?
(a) Removed all reference to the massacre.
(b) Transferred himself to another platoon.
(c) Forged papers for his own discharge.
(d) Removed his name from the platoon rolls.

5. How does Tony Carbo describe his relationship with John to Kathy?
(a) The alter ego.
(b) The numbers man.
(c) The wizard.
(d) The trusty assistant.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long before he left Vietnam did John get a desk job?

3. How does Arthur Lux say John might counter some of the rumors about his role in Kathy's disappearance?

4. What does Kathy do after returning from Harmon?

5. What do PFC Thinbill and John agree to do the night after the massacre?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the scene the soldiers encountered when they were ordered back to Thuan Yen.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Eleanor Wade say about John's father's death and its effect on John?

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

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