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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. Who is Bernadette Manuelito?
(a) Graduated from the Tribal Police Academy, worked for Joe Leaphorn whom she expects to marry soon, and did a short stint with the U.S. Border Patrol.
(b) Worked for Joe Leaphorn for almost 25 years.
(c) Was the dispatcher for the Tribal Police Academy and played on their police softball team.
(d) Graduated from the Tribal Police Academy, worked for Jim Chee whom she expects to marry soon, and did a short stint with the U.S. Border Patrol.

2. What does Sherman tell Chandler?
(a) That two retired cops have already solved the case.
(b) That he wants a fifty percent take on the case.
(c) That Joanna has already hired him.
(d) The facts of the case that Sherman has already learned.

3. In what month does the mystery begin?
(a) July.
(b) May.
(c) January.
(d) August.

4. What does Plymale want Chandler to do?
(a) Kill Joanna Craig.
(b) Find Joe Clarke's left arm.
(c) Find the rest of the diamonds.
(d) Kill Billy Tuve.

5. Who tells a story to support Joe's theory?
(a) Sam Pinto.
(b) Chief Joseph Brown.
(c) Billy Tuve.
(d) Joe Running Brave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chandler have to do with Seattle?

2. What does Chandler tell Sherman?

3. What does the new law enforcement file contain?

4. How does John Clarke die?

5. What does Joe think is Joanna Craig's motivation?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What besides Billy's brain injury could be a reason for his inability to give a date of his Kiva ritual?

3. How is the story about Cat an allegory for what Chee has encountered in his life?

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

5. How does Joe illustrate his thoughts about events arising from a complex and often invisible series of causes and effects?

6. What in this chapter may foreshadow a future event?

7. What event is the starting point for what becomes known as the Skeleton Man case?

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

9. What does Joanna say that gains Billy Tuve's attention and why?

10. How does Sam Pinto illustrate Joe's theory by enumerating a theoretical series of events?

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