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

2. What happened when the 'secrets' were released before the election?
(a) Supporters rallied around him.
(b) John's family disowned him.
(c) Friends stole away.
(d) Kathy abandoned him.

3. What does Kathy say in the letter John gets in Chapter 13, "The Nature of the Beast"?
(a) That she wants to get married.
(b) That she needs freedom from him.
(c) That she is waiting for him.
(d) That she met someone else.

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

5. When is Chapter 8, "How the Night Passed", set?
(a) The night when John returned from the military.
(b) The night when John and his company massacred the Vietnamese.
(c) The night when John lost the election.
(d) The night before Kathy's disappearance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Paul Meadlo admit to when he is questioned?

2. Why is John feeling humiliated?

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

4. How does John describe the scene he encountered after reading Kathy's letter?

5. When does In the Lake of the Woods begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does the narrator says that Kathy might have gone in his hypothesis in Chapter 9?

2. What do we hear about Weatherby that adds to what we heard about earlier?

3. Describe the effect of reading In the Lake of the Woods.

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

5. How does the narrator describe Kathy's feelings in the hypothesis in Chapter 9?

6. What did John discover when he returned from the war?

7. What did John tell himself about what he did to Weatherby?

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

9. What does Kathy tell John in a letter to him in Vietnam?

10. Describe the difference between Arthur Lux and Vinny Pearson.

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