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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 do Sherman and Chandler think will be easier than finding John Craig's arm?
(a) Finding the diamonds.
(b) Finding the shaman.
(c) Preventing someone else from finding the arm.
(d) Buying off the jury.

2. Who tries to get Joanna's mother to abort Joanna and accept money?
(a) John Clarke's father.
(b) Plymale.
(c) John Clarke's uncle.
(d) Joanna's grandmother.

3. What animal in the story starts the whole cycle of change?
(a) Coyotes.
(b) Deer.
(c) Birds.
(d) Bears.

4. What does Bernadette Manuelito admire on her way to Chee's trailer?
(a) A few elk in the pasture.
(b) A coyote pair with cubs.
(c) The cumulus clouds.
(d) A snake sunning on a rock.

5. What is the Kachina Masaw?
(a) The Skeleton Man.
(b) A dance the Hopi do for rain.
(c) The name of a Hopi drum group.
(d) A doll that has healing powers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is going to go together to pick up Billy?

2. Who takes Billy to his mother's house?

3. Who answers Sherman's phone?

4. What does Plymale say about Joanna Craig?

5. Of what does Chee dream?

Short Essay Questions

1. The focus on the possibility of rain continues in this chapter; name several hints that the weather may play a role in the story.

2. What seems to be a likely foreshadowing of a coming event?

3. What does the telephone conversation between Bernie and Chee say about their relationship?

4. At this point in the story, do you believe it when Joanna says that she seeks only her father's arm to end his pain in the afterlife and is not interested in the diamonds?

5. What allusion to the allegory of Cat story is contained in Chapter 13?

6. Why do you think Hillerman stereotypes characters such as Chandler and Plymale, making them one-dimensional?

7. Why do you think Fred Sherman, an ex-cop, is introduced as another "bad" guy?

8. What about the difference between white and Native American culture does Hillerman seem to be again emphasizing. Why do you as a reader respond to this obvious stereotyping?

9. In a mystery, every sentence offers clues, either about the case or about the characters that are part of the case; what does the reader learn early on about Joe Leaphorn from one sentence?

10. What do you think is the main purpose of this short chapter?

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