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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Tibbets say it is a good bet the skull was killed by soldiers?
(a) They used large bore rifles.
(b) They routinely executed prisoners.
(c) They were the only people with rifles.
(d) Ranchers used pistols.

2. What does Homesley give Brennan when Brennan is going through the boxes?
(a) Chocolate chip cookies and milk.
(b) Toast and eggs.
(c) Some chips and dip.
(d) A bowl of ice cream.

3. What does Brennan fear will happen to the skull if the police get it?
(a) It will be thrown in the landfill.
(b) It will be destroyed.
(c) It will be thrown back in the wrong canyon.
(d) It will be displayed in a museum.

4. What does Brennan assume about the skull that Mr. Homesley says is not necessarily true?
(a) That the skull is a white soldier.
(b) That the skull belongs to an Indian.
(c) That the skull is from a young child.
(d) That he didn't break the law.

5. What does Brennan wish about Mr. Homesley?
(a) That his mother had married Homesley and he was Brennan's father.
(b) That he was single.
(c) That he wasn't leaving the area.
(d) That he was Brennan's age.

6. From what band of Apaches was Coyote Runs?
(a) Table Mesa band.
(b) Horse Mesa band.
(c) Canyon Mesa band.
(d) Swift Run bank

7. What does Brennan find in the sky to help him?
(a) The Southern Cross.
(b) The moon.
(c) The Big Dipper and North Star.
(d) Orion the Hunter.

8. What does the voice in Brennan's head tell him about snakes?
(a) They did not move at night.
(b) Night is when the snakes hunted.
(c) He could push a stick ahead of him in the sand.
(d) There were no snakes in that part of the desert.

9. What does Brennan wonder about the age of the person to whom the skull belonged?
(a) If it was someone his own age.
(b) If it can be determined what the age of the person was.
(c) If it was a child.
(d) If it was an adult.

10. What does Brennan think drove the west forward?
(a) Greed.
(b) Fear.
(c) Excitement.
(d) Violence.

11. How does Brennan leave his house?
(a) Through a window.
(b) Through the front door.
(c) Through the garage.
(d) Through the back door.

12. In what does Brennan carry the skull to Dr. Tibbets?
(a) His backpack.
(b) His mother's hat box.
(c) It was wrapped in a towel.
(d) A tennis shoe box.

13. What does Mr. Homesley say about Brennan going into the canyon alone?
(a) He is being guided by a dead Indian.
(b) He'll be fine.
(c) Someone should go with him.
(d) He might get hurt.

14. What does Amelia Gephart ask the commanding officer to tell her?
(a) If he was an adult.
(b) In what canyon was the body buried.
(c) If Coyote Runs was killed and where.
(d) If he actually had a gun.

15. What kind of body does Mr. Homesley have?
(a) Tall and skinny.
(b) Short and fat.
(c) Short and wiry.
(d) Tall and very heavy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Homesley say about God and beetles?

2. What does Brennan hear in the night after he falls down?

3. What is Mr. Homesley's first thought when Brennan tells him about the skull?

4. What does the voice in Brennan's head tell him to do for water?

5. What does Mr. Homesley convince Brennan to do with him at the school?

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