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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 describe the search for Kathy?
(a) A fool's errand.
(b) Shooting fish in a barrel.
(c) A crapshoot.
(d) A stab in the dark.

2. Why does Tony Carbo say he didn't leave John earlier than the election night?
(a) He is in love with Kathy.
(b) He needed to finish the job.
(c) He needed the money.
(d) He wanted to watch the whole thing play out.

3. Where do the police look for Kathy?
(a) In nearby islands.
(b) Around the cabin.
(c) In her hometown.
(d) Where she went to college.

4. What is Kathy's relationship with Harmon, in the hypothesis in Chapter 24?
(a) She can't remember him.
(b) She looks for him in crowds.
(c) She wants to talk to him.
(d) She still sees his face.

5. What literary term describes the description of Kathy's return from her time with Harmon?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Flashback.
(c) Synecdoche.
(d) Foreshadowing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Patricia arrive in Chapter 19, "What was Found"?

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

3. How long do Patricia and John search for Kathy for?

4. What does John tell Claude Rasmussen in response?

5. What direction does John travel in Chapter 28, "How He Went Away"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was John like in the eighth grade?

3. What does the narrator speculate in the hypothesis in Chapter 24?

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

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

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

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

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

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