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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 Mr. Homesley say about God and beetles?
(a) God must really like beetles.
(b) God was nice to provide food for the ants.
(c) Maybe God looks like a beetle.
(d) Maybe God created earth for the beetles.

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

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

4. With what is Brennan obsessed with by Chapter 11?
(a) Bill and his mother.
(b) His job.
(c) His father.
(d) The skull.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Brennan convinced of regarding the skull?

2. Why hasn't Brennan called the police or told his mother about the skull?

3. How does Brennan think he will be able to run in the desert?

4. What is the first reason Brennan gives his mother for not telling her about the skull?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Brennan leave the skull and why?

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

3. What kind of relationship do Brennan and Mr. Homesley end up having?

4. What does Brennan learn about the probable age of the person to whom the skull belongs?

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

6. What was written in most of the reports in the boxes?

7. In Chapter 12, describe what Brennan is thinking when he contemplates the bullet hole in the skull.

8. What incident with Mr. Homesley does Brennan recall when he thinks of talking to him about the skull?

9. Where does Brennan hide the skull in his house?

10. What does Brennan find deep in the canyon and what does he do?

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