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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 away is the next live water from the hogan where Chee left Nakai?

2. What weapon does Brigham use to stop Elliot?

3. About how old is Arnold?

4. What color facial hair does the helicopter pilot have who flies Chee?

5. Where does Leaphorn spend the afternoon after talking with March?

Short Essay Questions

1. What lines the shelves on either side of a formal fireplace in DuMont's home?

2. Where did Etcitty find the pot that DuMont purchased?

3. While Houk is in the barn considering his fate, what does he realize he should have known?

4. What tracks does Leaphorn discover in the area where Friedman-Bernal left her kayak?

5. What has been a major source of satisfaction for Harrison Houk for most of his life?

6. How does Arnold know that Friedman-Bernal took his kayak?

7. What does Detective McGee look like?

8. What would Pete do if she left to live with her boyfriend?

9. Why was Elliot turned down when he applied to excavate sites in San Juan County?

10. What does Amos Whistler say about the area where the pots came from that interest Friedman-Bernal?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Brigham Houk and his problems.

Essay Topic 2

DuMont says that "One doesn't buy merely the object. One wants what goes with it. The history." Discuss what DuMont means that one buys the history of an object and how that relates to his desire to speak with Leaphorn.

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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