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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Belacani?
(a) White people.
(b) Bad spirits.
(c) Zuni.
(d) Non-Navajo people.

2. In Chapter 9, what is the fetish that Leaphorn finds?
(a) A carved kachina.
(b) A bone mole.
(c) A badger.
(d) An antelope.

3. In Chapter 5, what face turns to scarred white ice?
(a) The moon.
(b) Corn Mountain.
(c) A Zuni elder.
(d) Shorty Bowlegs.

4. Who helps Leaphorn change his flat tire?
(a) Naranjo.
(b) Cecil Bowlegs.
(c) Shorty Bowlegs.
(d) Father Ingles.

5. Up to how many people live in a Zuni home?
(a) Ten.
(b) Twenty-five or thirty.
(c) Fifteen to twenty.
(d) Less than eight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Navajo way to release a ghost for its infinite wandering?

2. In Chapter 3, what does Leaphorn offer Cecil in an effort to get him to open up?

3. Who says, "When the dung beetle moves, know that something has moved it"?

4. What is Leaphorn's clan?

5. According to Leaphorn, what are the colors of dry country autumn where he lives?

(see the answer key)

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