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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21 through 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Claude Rasmussen describe the search for Kathy?
(a) Shooting fish in a barrel.
(b) A fool's errand.
(c) A crapshoot.
(d) A stab in the dark.

2. Where does John go the day after the night of the boiling plants?
(a) Home.
(b) Out on the lake.
(c) Claude Rasmussen's house.
(d) The sheriff.

3. Why does John say he might have slept through the outboard motor starting on the boat?
(a) The cabin was far from the lake.
(b) He had been drinking.
(c) He had been ill.
(d) He had slept with earplugs.

4. What does John remember about the night of the boiling plants after Arthur Lux and Vinny Pearson leave?
(a) Walking into the bedroom.
(b) Digging a hole.
(c) Taking the boat out.
(d) Carrying Kathy.

5. What imagery does O'Brien use to convey the scene of John's anger and Kathy's reaction to it?
(a) The scent of wet wool.
(b) The sound of screaming.
(c) The sound of water splashing.
(d) The comparison of John's pain to electric eels.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does John call after talking with Claude Rasmussen?

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

3. Where do the police look for Kathy?

4. How does Tony Carbo describe his relationship with John to Kathy?

5. When did John pass the bar?

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