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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the soldiers report occurred before Coyote Runs was killed?
(a) Coyote Runs killed a soldier.
(b) An exchange of gunfire.
(c) A rattler bit Coyote Runs.
(d) Coyote Runs was holding rifle.

2. Who does Brennan decide to ask to learn more about the skull?
(a) Stony.
(b) Mr. Homesley.
(c) His mother.
(d) Bill.

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

4. What is Brennan convinced of regarding the skull?
(a) It was his in another incarnation.
(b) It belonged to someone young.
(c) It is the skull of a white soldier.
(d) It belongs to a girl.

5. What is the name of the Apache reservation near Brennan's home?
(a) Seven Canyons.
(b) Black Forest.
(c) White Mountain.
(d) Sand River.

6. Why does Brennan think he will be able to get across the desert?
(a) He has run in the desert many times.
(b) He believes Coyote Runs will help him.
(c) He doesn't know if he can get across it.
(d) He will move only at night.

7. What does Brennan use for cover when he approaches the canyon?
(a) He ran in a crouch.
(b) The dark of the night.
(c) He hid behind boulders.
(d) Dunes and brush.

8. What does Dr. Tibbets look like?
(a) He is quite fat.
(b) He is tall and thin.
(c) He is short and stocky.
(d) He is short and thin.

9. Who does Mr. Homesley think they need to ask about the skull?
(a) A lawyer.
(b) A anthropologist.
(c) A doctor.
(d) An expert pathologist.

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

11. Why does Mr. Homesley have so much electronic equipment in his house?
(a) He repairs electronics as a side business.
(b) His wife is an engineer.
(c) He's a ham radio operator.
(d) For his music hobby.

12. What subject does Mr. Homesley teach?
(a) Chemistry.
(b) Biology.
(c) Zoology.
(d) History.

13. What is the size of the bullet hole in the forehead of the skull?
(a) About the size of a green pea.
(b) About half the size of his palm.
(c) About the size of his palm.
(d) About the size of his thumbprint.

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 does the voice in Brennan's head tell him to do for water?
(a) Look for the greenest plants.
(b) Dig under large rocks.
(c) Kill small animals.
(d) Use the yucca plant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Brennan fear will happen to the skull if the police get it?

2. How does Brennan see where he is going when night falls?

3. What does Brennan hear in the distance?

4. What does Brennan see where he meets Dr. Tibbets?

5. What does Mr. Homesley do in the military?

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