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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 is the name of the state that the girl at the Tsaya Chapter House overheard Nakai mention?

2. In which horse stall did Houk die?

3. What is the tribe of Chee's grandfather?

4. Off what road is Nakai's tent trailer parked?

5. How many sacred mountains mark the borders of Dineh Bike'yah?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Arnold believe that Friedman-Bernal might have taken his kayak?

2. What does Chee learn when he calls the travel agency that Elliot uses?

3. When Leaphorn climbs a cliff, who is standing waiting for him?

4. Why won't L. G. Marcy tell Leaphorn who the buyer was of the pot that interested Friedman-Bernal?

5. When Leaphorn sees a snowy egret, what does he compare it to?

6. Where does Houk consider hiding?

7. How does Leaphorn travel home from New York?

8. Why does Leaphorn light a fire?

9. What did Leaphorn ask Irene Musket to do for him as he took out the kayak?

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

Essay Topic 2

Leaphorn enjoys the rain in New York City and purchases the first umbrella he has ever owned. Discuss why the rain is so special to Leaphorn and why he has never owned an umbrella.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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