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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tony Carbo tell John after the election?

2. What happened when John showed up where Kathy and Tony Carbo were gambling?

3. What did John's father call him when he (John) was in eighth grade?

4. What does Kathy do after returning from Harmon?

5. What is Kathy's reaction to John and Tony Carbo's conversation?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What was John like in the eighth grade?

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

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

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

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

10. What does sorcerer admit to in the evidence from the court martial hearings?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What questions are we really asking when we ask what happened to Kathy? What is this book really about, at bottom?

Essay Topic 2

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

Essay Topic 3

How realistic is this book? What parts are not believable? What leaps of faith does the author require of the reader?

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