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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did John's campaign manager call John's opponent's tactics?
(a) Ambush politics.
(b) Bare-knuckle politics.
(c) Take no prisoners politics.
(d) Personal politics.

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

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

4. How did John cope with the event that took place when he was 14?
(a) He moved back and forth between his parents.
(b) He befriended the neighborhood housewives.
(c) He studied the Vietnam War in school.
(d) He pretended his father was still alive.

5. What did John watch Weatherby do?
(a) Shoot two girls.
(b) Scalp a man.
(c) Kill Kathy.
(d) Hide in a ditch.

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

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

8. What was John like in the beginning of his relationship with Kathy?
(a) Obsessive.
(b) Aloof.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Hot and cold.

9. What shape does John's awareness of his action take?
(a) Horror at the sight of what he's done.
(b) Repugnance from the smell of dead foliage.
(c) Terror at the silence coming from Kathy now.
(d) Sorrow over the redness and blisters on Kathy's skin.

10. What was John's relationship with his father like?
(a) Distrustful.
(b) Disjointed.
(c) Affectionate.
(d) Disdainful.

11. Where did the sheriff come out to the lake from?
(a) Minneapolis.
(b) Rainy River.
(c) St. Paul.
(d) Baudette.

12. When did John and Kathy know that the election was lost?
(a) Election night.
(b) Weeks before election night.
(c) Three days after the election.
(d) Six weeks after the election, when the last appeal was turned down.

13. What is the relationship between Arthur Lux and Vinny Pearson?
(a) Lux threatens to fire Vinny Pearson if he keeps asking questions.
(b) Lux does not allow Vinny Pearson's distrustful questions.
(c) Lux gives Vinny Pearson freedom to ask John whatever he wants.
(d) Lux backs Vinny Pearson's aggressive questioning.

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

15. What does John do the morning after the night of the boiling plants?
(a) Sleeps in.
(b) Takes the boat out.
(c) Goes for a hike.
(d) Writes Kathy a letter.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times did John wake up during the night in Chapter 8?

2. What does Kathy say in the letter John gets in Chapter 13, "The Nature of the Beast"?

3. What does the author interject about Kathy's disappearance?

4. What did John's father call him when John was a child?

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

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