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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do John and Kathy treat each other by their seventh day at the cabin?
(a) They are indifferent to each other.
(b) They are careful with each other.
(c) They are intimate with each other.
(d) They are hostile toward each other.

2. What time did John get up after the night of the boiling plants?
(a) Nine.
(b) Noon.
(c) Afternoon.
(d) Six.

3. Where did John begin his political career?
(a) The military.
(b) The Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Party.
(c) The Minnesota Republican Party.
(d) The Minnesota Socialist Party.

4. When do we discover that Kathy is missing?
(a) When Wade wakes up.
(b) When Vinny Pearson says that he thinks Wade killed her.
(c) When the sheriff shows up at John and Kathy's cabin.
(d) When Wade describes pouring boiling water on the plants.

5. How does John respond to the clerk's evidence?
(a) He says that he and Kathy had a rough sense of humor.
(b) He says that Kathy was playful, and acted in college.
(c) He says that Kathy had never threatened to leave him.
(d) He says the fight was nothing.

6. What is John's hypothesis in Chapter 9 "Hypothesis"?
(a) That Kathy just walked away from the cabin.
(b) That he killed Kathy.
(c) That someone killed Kathy.
(d) That Kathy went to get help for him and was injured along the way.

7. Who is Arthur Lux?
(a) A gas station owner.
(b) Lake of the Woods sheriff.
(c) An FBI investigator
(d) John's campaign manager.

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

9. What does Kathy suspect John of when he joins the military?
(a) Murder.
(b) Deceitfulness.
(c) Running from the law.
(d) Political aspirations.

10. Who is Harmon?
(a) Kathy's professor.
(b) John's friend.
(c) A dentist.
(d) John's campaign manager.

11. How does the narrator describe the campaigns Tony Carbo ran for John?
(a) Slick, expensive.
(b) Grassroots.
(c) Disorganized.
(d) Values-based.

12. Who is John Wade?
(a) A fisherman.
(b) A politician.
(c) A soldier.
(d) A mechanic.

13. What happened to John when he was 14?
(a) His mother took him out of school.
(b) His parents divorced.
(c) His father was sent to Vietnam.
(d) His father died.

14. What has just taken place when In the Lake of the Woods begins?
(a) A birth.
(b) A massacre.
(c) A murder.
(d) Primary elections.

15. Why is it important that we know Kathy's physical measurements?
(a) Wade is trying to establish certain facts.
(b) She goes missing from time to time, and has to be found.
(c) She is wanted by the law.
(d) Wade is shopping for a dress for her.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does John describe his memory of the night of the boiling water?

2. What did John arrange for Kathy, even though it saddened him?

3. Which of these is NOT a secret John keeps from everyone?

4. What does John say about secrets?

5. Who is Tony Carbo?

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