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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. How did John's platoon try to block the stench of the dead?
(a) By covering the bodies with ash.
(b) By tying rags around their faces.
(c) By burning everything.
(d) By spraying the bodies with lye.

2. What does John tell Claude Rasmussen in response?
(a) That his friends from Vietnam won't talk.
(b) That he will be gone before anyone finds anything.
(c) That Kathy might still turn up.
(d) That the police won't find anything.

3. What does John say in response to Patricia's anger?
(a) That he thought Kathy would turn up.
(b) That he had been having a hard time with a lot of things.
(c) That he quit drinking years ago.
(d) That he had been looking for Kathy.

4. How does Tony Carbo describe his relationship with John to Kathy?
(a) The numbers man.
(b) The wizard.
(c) The trusty assistant.
(d) The alter ego.

5. What does Tony Carbo say in response to John's question?
(a) He says that John is finished in politics.
(b) He says he is a pig and couldn't help himself.
(c) He says he can still get John on the ballot for state representative.
(d) He says that he had been recruited.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator's last hypothesis?

2. How did John spend his time in eighth grade?

3. Why does Tony Carbo say he didn't leave John earlier than the election night?

4. What changed John's mind from what he and Calley agreed to?

5. What parallel does Patricia draw between John and Kathy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator speculate in the hypothesis in Chapter 24?

2. Describe John's departure from Lake of the Woods.

3. What does the narrator theorize in the hypothesis in Chapter 18?

4. Describe the relationship between Kathy and Tony Carbo.

5. What does sorcerer admit to in the evidence from the court martial hearings?

6. What are Kathy's plans, according to the hypothesis in Chapter 18?

7. Why did John reenlist after his first tour in Vietnam?

8. Describe the scene of the massacre as the evidence reveals it in Chapter 21.

9. Describe the relationship between John and Vinny Pearson in Chapter 23, "Where They Looked".

10. What does the narrator speculate happened, in the hypothesis in Chapter 27?

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