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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. How far do anthropologists believe that the Old Ones carried the roof beams for the huge stone apartments that they built?

2. What was the name of Leaphorn's wife?

3. How many bullets did Dr. Friedman-Bernal bring with her?

4. Where is Dr. Delbert Devanti from?

5. What does Leaphorn have for breakfast the morning after talking with Nakai?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What poster hangs on the wall where Thatcher and Leaphorn are waiting at the Chaco visitors' center?

3. What does Thatcher say about Harrison Houk?

4. How did Leaphorn remember calls traveling when they used a Navajo Communications Company telephone line?

5. Describe Chee's sweat bath.

6. Why did Rev. Tafoya become a Christian?

7. Who is Lehman?

8. Why does Leaphorn believe that the backhoe case and Dr. Friedman-Bernal's case overlap?

9. What items do Davis and Elliott think are missing from Dr. Friedman-Bernal's apartment?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Houk and the life he has led and how other characters view him.

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 5, Chee remembers an aphorism his uncle frequently told him, "When you're tired of walking up a long hill you think about how easy it's going to be walking down." Discuss the meaning of this aphorism and whether it came true for Chee.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how the author uses back stories to provide information about characters and to describe events that happened before the occurrences in the novel.

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