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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. What does Black discover behind the second seal?

2. What does the helicopter unload?

3. What does Beiyoodzin hope to do?

4. What does Sloane confess in the tower?

5. What does Nora notice about Sloane when she runs into her coming down the ladder from the city?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the flash flood announce itself?

2. Bonarotti sits outside after breaking through the seals to the Sun Kiva to have a cigarette and has trouble remembering what?

3. After her argument with Nora, what does Sloane do?

4. What does John Beiyoodzin realize when he makes his way up the Priest's Trail and finds the remains of the twig fire?

5. How does Sloane test Nora's authority yet again?

6. Who grabs Nora from behind when she goes to check whether or not Sloane had killed Smithback?

7. What surprises Sloane after she kills the skinwalker that chases her and Nora up the tower ladders?

8. Why is Beiyoodzin seeking the Priest's Trail?

9. What do the designs on the black on yellow micaceous pottery reveal?

10. What does Sloane conceal from Nora and how does Black react?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Aragon comes to the conclusion that it is likely that they Aztecs or their Toltec predecessors invaded the Anasazi civilization at Quivira sometime around A.D. 950. When that happened, everything changed. How did the Toltecs present themselves to the Anasazi peoples? What was the result of their influence on the Anasazi? How is Aragon able to establish these facts? What is the science that he uses to back up his suppositions?

Essay Topic 2

Nora is placed in charge of this expedition largely because it is a condition of hers. She holds the information of their destination back as much as possible to increase her leverage. How will the other more experienced members of the team likely respond to her as a leader? What conflicts are likely to arise, and based on the characters introduced so far, who will be her biggest challenges? Why do you think that is the case? What passages in the book support your theories?

Essay Topic 3

The discovery of the first Kiva is significant. While it appears to be the main Kiva, what evidence supports a different conclusion? How does what they already know about the Anasazi people tie into that conclusion? What can the reader infer from this point and which observations are made and by whom that support or lean in that direction?

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