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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Brennan tell Homesley when Homesley guesses Brennan found some information?
(a) He wants to know more.
(b) Coyote Runs has possesed him.
(c) He should keep the skull.
(d) The skull is not Coyote Runs'.

2. What kind of environmental conditions d0 patrol reports write about?
(a) Dust and heat.
(b) Cool and dry.
(c) Cold and rainy.
(d) Hot and wet.

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

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

5. How many rounds of ammunition is each soldier given on patrol?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Ten.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Twenty-five.

6. How does Brennan elude the men chasing him?
(a) Up an old Apache climbing path.
(b) Hiding under a boulder.
(c) Buried in the sand.
(d) Going into a cave they were too big to enter.

7. What iss the purpose of most of the patrols around Fort Bliss?
(a) Capture wild mustangs.
(b) Keep the soldiers occupied.
(c) Find lost settlers.
(d) Maintain public order and engage hostiles.

8. Why does Brennan think a fire would be nice?
(a) To keep away the animals.
(b) The air iss cold and the dew damp.
(c) So he could see.
(d) So he could pretend he is camping.

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

10. What does Mr. Homesley call the mixture he and Tibbets used in Vietnam?
(a) Black gold.
(b) Viet Nam taiti.
(c) A Murphy drip.
(d) A speedy cocktail.

11. Why is Brennan not supposed to take things from the canyons?
(a) It was an Indian burial grounds.
(b) It could be a crime area.
(c) It is a State Preserve.
(d) It is National Forest Land.

12. Why do ranchers take their families to El Paso?
(a) So the kids could attend school.
(b) They fear the Indians.
(c) For the weekly dances.
(d) To sell to the soldiers.

13. What does Brennan hear in the distance?
(a) Owls hooting.
(b) Nothing, the desert was silent.
(c) Small animals scurrying in the mesquite bushes.
(d) Cars going down the highway.

14. What does Brennan see when he came up to his home after leaving Mr. Homesley?
(a) A couple of kids from school looking at him.
(b) Bill's car parked out front.
(c) His boss's truck at his house.
(d) Police cars in front of his house.

15. What happens when Brennan looks back at the men?
(a) He falls into a mesquite bush.
(b) He rruns into a boulder.
(c) He kicks a snake.
(d) He stumbles on a stone.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the soldiers report occurred before Coyote Runs was killed?

3. How does Brennan feel about the dark as he is running?

4. From what band of Apaches was Coyote Runs?

5. What does Amelia Gephart ask the commanding officer to tell her?

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