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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 Patricia say about her sister?
(a) That she was a good person.
(b) That she was in danger.
(c) That she deserved better than John.
(d) That she had an image of her on an island.

2. What does Patricia say about the point John brings up about Kathy in Chapter 19, "What was Found"?
(a) That she loved politics.
(b) That Kathy was crafty, and probably left a sign somewhere.
(c) That she never believed her sister really loved John.
(d) That the affair was an attempt to get him to wake up.

3. Where does the narrator place John and Kathy in his last hypothesis?
(a) California.
(b) A foreign country.
(c) Around the corner from their old home.
(d) Canada.

4. What changed John's mind from what he and Calley agreed to?
(a) His sense of innocence.
(b) His fear of prison.
(c) His political plans.
(d) His desire to tell the truth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Deborah Lindquist?

2. What does Tony Carbo tell John after the election?

3. How did Robert W. T'Souvas die?

4. What do Claude and Ruth do in Chapter 19, "What was Found"?

5. How does Patricia arrive in Chapter 19, "What was Found"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What was John like in the eighth grade?

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

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

8. Describe the arrangements John makes for the day after Patricia's arrival?

9. What does Eleanor Wade say about John's father's death and its effect on John?

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

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