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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 technique does the narrator use in narrating the Hypothesis chapters?
(a) Duplicity.
(b) Equivocation.
(c) Ambivalence.
(d) Mendacity.

2. What does Calley order the men to do?
(a) Forget any atrocities.
(b) Take trophies from the dead.
(c) Plant weapons in the village.
(d) Clean up the village.

3. What is Arthur Lux's final opinion about John and Kathy?
(a) He got busy with other things, and the mystery stopped being meaningful to him.
(b) He continues to examine different possibilities.
(c) He knows John is a good guy.
(d) He feels like he should have listened to Vinny Pearson.

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

5. Why is Patricia angry with John when she arrives?
(a) Because he didn't call sooner.
(b) Because she thinks he killed Kathy.
(c) Because she's upset about her sister.
(d) Because he looks like he's been drinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Kathy spend time with Harmon?

2. How does Claude Rasmussen describe the search for Kathy?

3. Why does Tony Carbo say he didn't leave John earlier than the election night?

4. What did John notice after the massacre?

5. What trait of John's intensified after his father's death?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What did John and his company do after the massacre?

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

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