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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is taboo in the eight days leading to Shalako?
(a) Laughter.
(b) Eating before sundown.
(c) Associating with non-Zuni people.
(d) Anger.

2. In Chapter 1, what is stenciled on the back of the Little Fire God's sweatshirt?
(a) Property of St. Anthony's Mission Church.
(b) Property of Zuni Consolidated Schools.
(c) Property of the Zuni Pueblo.
(d) Property of the Little Fire God.

3. According to Cecil, why is a kachina after his brother and Ernesto?
(a) Both boys committed sacrilege.
(b) Both boys ignored kachina warnings.
(c) Ernesto told something taboo to George.
(d) George did something against the Zuni religion.

4. Where did Leaphorn attend college?
(a) University of Arizona.
(b) University of New Mexico.
(c) Arizona State.
(d) New Mexico State.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Cecil, who stole something from the anthropologists at the dig site?

2. Which of these men is the McKinley County Deputy Sheriff?

3. Who is the Navajo friend of the Little Fire God?

4. Ernesto Cata is one of the missing boys. What other name or role does the reader know Cata by?

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

(see the answer key)

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