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

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

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

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

5. What had John and Kathy tried to do, that had been a failure?
(a) Questioned the election results.
(b) Raised money.
(c) Made love.
(d) Had a child.

Short Answer Questions

1. What cost John the victory in the election?

2. Describe the narrator of In the Lake of the Woods.

3. What does Vinny think happened?

4. What does John think Kathy thinks of him?

5. What was Kathy's bid secret?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did John join the military?

2. What does John tell Kathy in his letters from Vietnam?

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

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

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

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

7. How does Kathy die in the hypothesis in Chapter 14?

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

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

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

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