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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 the narrator say was found, in Chapter 19, "What was Found"?
(a) Wreckage of the boat.
(b) Kathy's clothing.
(c) Life preservers.
(d) No sign.

2. What does Eleanor Wade say about why her husband killed himself?
(a) He never got over a lost childhood love.
(b) He could never stop drinking.
(c) Neither she nor John could ever come up with a reason.
(d) He was clearly unhappy about their finances.

3. What does John tell Claude Rasmussen in response?
(a) That he will be gone before anyone finds anything.
(b) That the police won't find anything.
(c) That his friends from Vietnam won't talk.
(d) That Kathy might still turn up.

4. Who was the only soldier convicted for the Thuan Yen massacre?
(a) Calley.
(b) Wade.
(c) T'Souvas.
(d) Simpson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Arthur Lux tell John about the election?

2. What does the narrator think happened to Kathy?

3. What was happening when John showed up when Kathy and Tony Carbo were gambling?

4. Who was Sandra Karra?

5. Where does John sleep on his first night out from the cabin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Kathy thinking about, in the narrator's hypothesis in Chapter 24?

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

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

4. Describe the relationship between Kathy and Tony Carbo.

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

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

7. What was the report about Robert T'Souvas?

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

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

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

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