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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Brennan decide he has to do with the skull?
(a) Take it to the Apache reservation.
(b) Follow the instructions in the dream.
(c) Give it to Dr. Tibbets.
(d) Give it to a museum.

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

4. What is Brennan's mother wearing?
(a) Shorts and a T-shirt.
(b) Tan pants and Bill's jacket.
(c) Jeans and one of his jackets.
(d) Her work clothes.

5. What does Mr. Homesley convince Brennan to do with him at the school?
(a) Study the history of beetles.
(b) Look in the grass for a beetle.
(c) Dissect a beetle.
(d) Build a model of a beetle colony.

Short Answer Questions

1. What iss the purpose of most of the patrols around Fort Bliss?

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

3. What does Dr. Tibbets offer Brennan to drink?

4. Who does Mr. Homesley think they need to ask about the skull?

5. What color is the place in question #121?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Brennan's mother tell him she has done and what is his response?

2. What does the commander answer in response to the letter in question #49? What does Brennan conclude from this report?

3. What happens as Brennan climbs some rocks and what is his response?

4. Why does Brennan talk to Mr. Homesley about the skull?

5. Where does Brennan meet Mr. Homesley, who do they see there and what does that person tell them about?

6. What was in a letter from a school Brennan finds?

7. What dream did Brennan have in Chapter 11 about an eagle?

8. What reason comes to Brennan when he thinks about keeping the skull?

9. What does Mr. Homesley say about the second source of information?

10. What does Brennan learn about the probable cause of death?

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