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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 the narrator say was found, in Chapter 19, "What was Found"?
(a) Kathy's clothing.
(b) Life preservers.
(c) No sign.
(d) Wreckage of the boat.

2. What does Arthur Lux tell John about the election?
(a) John deserved to be celebrated.
(b) John deserved to be arrested.
(c) John deserved better.
(d) John deserved to lose.

3. What literary term describes the description of Kathy's return from her time with Harmon?
(a) Flashback.
(b) Synecdoche.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Foreshadowing.

4. In the hypothesis in Chapter 27, what does John do?
(a) Moves funds into an account Kathy could access from anywhere on the globe.
(b) Sleeps while Kathy packed and left.
(c) Pours boiling water on Kathy's face.
(d) Files for divorce before going to Lake of the Woods.

5. What is the narrator's last hypothesis?
(a) That Kathy simply disappeared, almost as if by magic.
(b) That John killed Kathy.
(c) That John and Kathy ran away together.
(d) That John and Kathy agreed to go into the lake together.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John tell Claude Rasmussen in response?

2. Where does the narrator say Kathy might have headed toward?

3. What does Eleanor Wade say about why her husband killed himself?

4. What was it about going out with Harmon that excited Kathy, according to the narrator's hypothesis in Chapter 24?

5. Where was Kathy when John made his concession speech on election night?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the evidence presented in Chapter 25 indicate about the massacre in Thuan Yen?

2. What does Arthur Lux tell John when John goes into town to meet Patricia?

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

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

5. What are Arthur Lux and Vinny Pearson's opinions about John according to the evidence presented in Chapter 25?

6. What do Sandra Karra and Deborah Lindquist say about John's talents as a magician in the Evidence chapter, chapter 20?

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

8. What did John and his company do after the massacre?

9. What does Patricia say to John when she arrives?

10. What did John and Kathy do after John gave his concession speech on election night?

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