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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 Mr. Homesley say about God and beetles?
(a) God was nice to provide food for the ants.
(b) Maybe God looks like a beetle.
(c) Maybe God created earth for the beetles.
(d) God must really like beetles.

2. In what direction does Brennan go when he leaves his home?
(a) South.
(b) North.
(c) West.
(d) East.

3. What interferes with Brennan's time with Mr. Homesley during the summer?
(a) Mr. Homesley doesn't see students during the summer.
(b) Mr. Homesley leaves during the summer months.
(c) Brennan doesn't think about school in the summer.
(d) Brennan's work.

4. What does Brennan tell Homesley when Homesley guesses Brennan found some information?
(a) The skull is not Coyote Runs'.
(b) Coyote Runs has possesed him.
(c) He wants to know more.
(d) He should keep the skull.

5. What do the soldiers have to do sometimes to drink?
(a) Dig a well.
(b) Cut cacti.
(c) Use a water wagon.
(d) Cut the veins on their horses and drink the blood.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Brennan feel about the dark as he is running?

2. What does Brennan do with the skull to check out his theory on it?

3. What does Brennan ask his mother at the breakfast table on Friday?

4. Why does Mr. Homesley have Brennan bring a beetle to him everyday?

5. How does Brennan see where he is going when night falls?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Brennan find deep in the canyon and what does he do?

2. What incident with Mr. Homesley does Brennan recall when he thinks of talking to him about the skull?

3. What is suggested about why the person to whom the skull belongs was killed and what suggestion is made for Brennan to find more information?

4. What happens as Brennan climbs some rocks and what is his response?

5. What does Brennan learn about the probable age of the person to whom the skull belongs?

6. What happens when Brennan wants to stop for the night and what does he learn about snakes?

7. What was in a letter from a school Brennan finds?

8. What does Brennan find out when he comes home in Chapter 21?

9. What does Brennan do when he first arrives at his destination and what is he told? What is his response?

10. Where does Brennan leave the skull and why?

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