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

2. Where would investigators have to look for Kathy's body, according the hypothesis in Chapter 27?
(a) The bottom of the lake.
(b) Canada.
(c) In a shallow grave on one of the islands.
(d) Beneath the cabin.

3. How does Arthur Lux say John might counter some of the rumors about his role in Kathy's disappearance?
(a) By staying near the phone.
(b) By searching on the lake.
(c) By bringing his people from St. Paul.
(d) By calling in more searchers.

4. 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 loved politics.
(c) That she never believed her sister really loved John.
(d) That Kathy was crafty, and probably left a sign somewhere.

5. What happens to the radio on John's boat, ultimately?
(a) John smashes it.
(b) John gets beyond range for any transmission to get through.
(c) He disconnects it and drops it overboard.
(d) It breaks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John ask Tony Carbo in response to Tony Carbo's announcement?

2. What is Arthur Lux's final opinion about John and Kathy?

3. What does Deborah Lindquist say about Kathy's relationship with John?

4. What does the narrator say Kathy might have done in Chapter 22, "Hypothesis"?

5. What does Calley say about the massacre?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was John like in the eighth grade?

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

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

6. What is the narrator's last hypothesis?

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

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

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

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

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