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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 was John's childhood hobby?
(a) Model airplanes.
(b) Collecting stamps.
(c) Magic.
(d) Baseball.

2. What does John remember from the night of the boiling water?
(a) Pouring boiling water on himself.
(b) Admitting his crime in Vietnam.
(c) Killing Kathy.
(d) Kathy not being in bed.

3. What is the result of O'Brien titling more than one chapter "Hypothesis"?
(a) We return to the same question over and over.
(b) We get confused about where the narrative is taking us.
(c) We doubt the narrator's credibility.
(d) We lose our sense of time.

4. Which of these is NOT a secret John keeps from everyone?
(a) What happened to Weatherby.
(b) That he is at home in Vietnam.
(c) His role in the events at Thuan Yen.
(d) What his father called him as a child.

5. When did John and Kathy meet?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1966.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say motivated John to join the military?

2. What does the narrator hypothesize in Chapter 14, "Hypothesis"?

3. How do John and Kathy deal with the fact that their dreams are impossible for the moment?

4. What was John's relationship with his father like?

5. What does Eleanor Wade say about why her husband killed himself?

(see the answer key)

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