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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens to John after reading Kathy's letter?
(a) The massacre at Thuan Yen.
(b) He loses the election.
(c) He learns magic tricks.
(d) His father dies.

3. What does Eleanor Wade say about her son?
(a) That he was brave and intelligent.
(b) That he was not a liar.
(c) That he couldn't have hurt Kathy.
(d) That he would pay the money he owed.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does William Calley say when he is questioned?

2. What has just taken place when In the Lake of the Woods begins?

3. Who does John call after talking with Claude Rasmussen?

4. Who is Harmon?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. When did the Wades discover that the election was lost?

2. What was John's experience of Vietnam like, and what did Weatherby have to do with his experience?

3. What happens shortly after John got this letter from Kathy?

4. What additional information do we get about the night of the boiling plants?

5. What do we know about the night of the boiling plants?

6. How well are John and Kathy doing, at coping with events?

7. What is the problem with the hypothesis in Chapter 14?

8. What sources does the narrator use, to piece together the story?

9. What does John think about Kathy's absence?

10. Why did John join the military?

(see the answer keys)

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