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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, where does Chee have to deliver a witness to an FBI office?

2. What is the first person wearing that Chee finds dead?

3. Where did Chee's girlfriend go?

4. What did Chee study at New Mexico?

5. What is the clan of Irene Musket's mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Leaphorn decide to investigate Dr. Friedman-Bernal's disappearance?

2. How does Chee damage the car Janet Pete wants to buy?

3. Describe Chee's sweat bath.

4. How is Dr. Friedman-Bernal described as she makes her moonlit hike in the desert?

5. Why is one section of the canyon called the baseball gallery?

6. How did Dr. Friedman-Bernal make it appear that she was going to Farmington?

7. How did Leaphorn's wife, Emma die?

8. Who saw the theft of a backhoe and why didn't they report it?

9. What problems does Tso tell Pete that the car had before Chee wrecked it?

10. What is the job of the contract archaeology team that Maxie Davis and Dr. Friedman-Bernal worked with?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Brigham Houk and his problems.

Essay Topic 2

Compare Leaphorn and Chee. Show how the two men are different, and how they are alike.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss suspense and how the author uses suspense in the novel.

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