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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did John say about the thing he arranged for Kathy?
(a) It was good for her character.
(b) It was worth the separation.
(c) It was bad timing.
(d) It was the best way.

2. How does John respond to the clerk's evidence?
(a) He says the fight was nothing.
(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 that he and Kathy had a rough sense of humor.

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

4. Where does John promise to take Kathy?
(a) Versailles.
(b) Verona.
(c) Venice.
(d) Paris.

5. Why is John feeling humiliated?
(a) He was exposed as a phony.
(b) He was arrested for money laundering.
(c) He was caught in an affair.
(d) He lost by a landslide.

6. What did John do in the middle of the night?
(a) Pours boiling water on his hands.
(b) Pours boiling water on Kathy's face.
(c) Pours boiling water on the houseplants.
(d) Pours boiling water on his pictures.

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

8. What does John say about secrets?
(a) That he tells Kathy everything.
(b) That he keeps them from himself.
(c) That he doesn't share certain secrets.
(d) That he doesn't keep them.

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

10. What does John do after being discharged from the military?
(a) Visits his mother.
(b) Catches Kathy in an affair.
(c) Stalks Kathy.
(d) Surprises Kathy in her class.

11. Describe the narrator of In the Lake of the Woods.
(a) First person.
(b) Third person omniscient.
(c) Second person.
(d) Third person limited.

12. What did one of the members of John's company have attached to his helmet?
(a) A ponytail from a Vietnamese victim.
(b) Condoms.
(c) Pistol rounds.
(d) Letters from home.

13. How would you describe Eleanor Wade's contributions to Chapter 2?
(a) Criminal complaint.
(b) Testimony.
(c) Description.
(d) Epistle.

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

15. Where are the soldiers from John's outfit being questioned in Chapter 16, "Evidence"?
(a) In a Congressional investigation.
(b) In an investigation into Kathy's disappearance.
(c) In a court martial hearing.
(d) In a newspaper article.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did John cope with the event that took place when he was 14?

2. When did John and Kathy know that the election was lost?

3. What does John omit from his letters to Kathy from Vietnam?

4. What is John's hypothesis in Chapter 9 "Hypothesis"?

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

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