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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 Kathy might have done in Chapter 22, "Hypothesis"?
(a) Kept herself alive while she was lost.
(b) Run away to Canada.
(c) Gotten hypothermia.
(d) Gotten in an accident.

2. What evidence does the narrator describe for this hypothesis?
(a) Kathy always talked about leaving John and going to Vegas.
(b) That Kathy was abducted.
(c) Kathy was taking antidepressants.
(d) There haven't been any signs of Kathy or the boat.

3. 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 had seen similar things before.
(d) He hoped it was all true so he could make an example of the soldiers responsible.

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

5. What was it about going out with Harmon that excited Kathy, according to the narrator's hypothesis in Chapter 24?
(a) Harmon's good looks.
(b) The danger of cheating on John.
(c) Harmon's sense of humor.
(d) Harmon's ease with money.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where do the police look for Kathy?

4. How does John spend his time in Chapter 19, "What was Found"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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