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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 did Chee send his girlfriend once?

2. What does Dr. Friedman-Bernal hear up in the canyon?

3. How many people are in Nakai's congregation on the fringe of the Checkerboard Reservation?

4. What color was the hat that Leaphorn found that belonged to Houk's son?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Rev. Tafoya become a Christian?

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

3. What is the tradition of the Dineh regarding the dead?

4. What changes has Leaphorn made in his bedroom to help him not think so much about Emma?

5. What does Chee want to do when he discovers all the bones near the dead men?

6. Describe Chee's sweat bath.

7. How did Leaphorn's wife, Emma die?

8. Why does Leaphorn decide to investigate Dr. Friedman-Bernal's disappearance?

9. What is the job of the contract archaeology team that Maxie Davis and Dr. Friedman-Bernal worked with?

10. Who does Chee believe died first, Nails or Etcitty, and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss symbolism and how Pete and Chee use symbolism to talk about their broken relationships.

Essay Topic 2

Compare Leaphorn and Chee. Show how the two men are different, and how they are alike.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss why love is not enough to keep the Chee and Mary Landon together.

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