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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 Kathy tell Harmon on the fourth day together?
(a) She hated herself for being dishonest.
(b) The relationship was a mistake.
(c) She couldn't live with certain of Harmon's quirks.
(d) She was pregnant.

2. What did John do at his desk job?
(a) Forged papers for his own discharge.
(b) Removed all reference to the massacre.
(c) Removed his name from the platoon rolls.
(d) Transferred himself to another platoon.

3. Who was Sandra Karra?
(a) John's mother's friend.
(b) The woman at the magic shop.
(c) John's first girlfriend.
(d) John's school teacher.

4. What does John ask Tony Carbo in response to Tony Carbo's announcement?
(a) Who will he be working for.
(b) Couldn't he wait.
(c) Whether he really means to stand by him.
(d) What can be saved.

5. What does Arthur Lux want to talk to Patricia for?
(a) Background information.
(b) Helping him look for Kathy.
(c) Clues to where Kathy might be.
(d) Incriminating evidence against John.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Kathy feel about the gesture John made after she returned from Harmon?

2. What do PFC Thinbill and John agree to do the night after the massacre?

3. What does John point out to Patricia about Kathy?

4. Why is Patricia angry with John when she arrives?

5. What does Kathy say when Tony Carbo says that John likes to stack the deck?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the conversation Kathy and Tony Carbo have after John finds them gambling together.

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

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

5. What was Kathy thinking about, in the narrator's hypothesis in Chapter 24?

6. Describe the relationship between Kathy and Tony Carbo.

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

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

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

10. Describe how Patricia comes to Lake of the Woods.

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