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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18 through 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does John tell Kathy about in his letters from Vietnam?
(a) The pains he suffers.
(b) The war.
(c) His experiences killing people.
(d) His love for her.

2. What does the narrator think happened to Kathy?
(a) She passed out for lack of food and water.
(b) She got lost in the endless lake and islands.
(c) She was injured from John pouring boiling water on her.
(d) She got in an accident.

3. What do John and Kathy do on their seventh day at the cabin?
(a) Read and sleep and make love.
(b) Clean the cabin.
(c) Swim and lie in the sun.
(d) Put in a garden.

4. How does John describe his memory of the night of the boiling water?
(a) Spotty.
(b) Crystal clear.
(c) Insane.
(d) Disjointed.

5. What does Arthur Lux tell John when John goes to meet Patricia's arrival?
(a) That he believes in him as a politician.
(b) That Kathy will turn up.
(c) That he suspects her of murder.
(d) That people get lost here all the time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the result of O'Brien titling more than one chapter "Hypothesis"?

2. What imagery does O'Brien use to convey the scene of John's anger and Kathy's reaction to it?

3. What had John and Kathy tried to do, that had been a failure?

4. What did Kathy have at age 34?

5. Who is Arthur Lux?

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