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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of cloud does the author say the cloud east of Short Mountain has become?
(a) A female thunder.
(b) A child's weep.
(c) A male rain.
(d) A lover's rift.

2. Who does Leaphorn think Ben was trying to save?
(a) Theodora.
(b) The boy scouts.
(c) Himself.
(d) His brother.

3. What does Tso say he and his brother are saving the people from?
(a) Monsters.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Themselves.
(d) Devils.

4. What did Leaphorn find that belongs to the Haas helicopter?
(a) A set of keys.
(b) A flashlight.
(c) A map.
(d) A gun.

5. How does the author describe the sky at the beginning of Chapter 10?
(a) Blood red.
(b) Blanket gray.
(c) Blank blue.
(d) Santa white.

6. Who does Witover call a crazy son of a bitch?
(a) Tso.
(b) Tull.
(c) Leaphorn.
(d) McGinnis.

7. What does Leaphorn use as a club?
(a) A mug.
(b) His walkie talkie.
(c) A stickof dynamite.
(d) His fist.

8. Who does Leaphorn meet at the beginning of Chapter 12?
(a) John Tull.
(b) Tom Kinn.
(c) Margaret Cigaret.
(d) Begay Utah.

9. Who does Tull speak to on the radio?
(a) Whitey.
(b) Blackie.
(c) Horace.
(d) Treehorn.

10. What kind of material have the men used to fasten Tso's ankles?
(a) Rope.
(b) Nylon.
(c) Wire.
(d) Wool.

11. Where did Tso's father get beaten up?
(a) Tuba City.
(b) Gallup.
(c) Farmington.
(d) Laurington.

12. What are the Arizona Police describing on Leaphorn's radio?
(a) A gangster hideout.
(b) A murder victim.
(c) A truck.
(d) A motorbike.

13. Which animal's footprints does Leaphorn find traces of in the mesa?
(a) A buffalo.
(b) A wolf.
(c) A dog.
(d) A goat.

14. Whose voice can Tso and Leaphorn hear as they walk through the cave?
(a) Julian's.
(b) Tull's.
(c) Max's.
(d) Theodora's.

15. What does Leaphorn think will kill him if the flames don't?
(a) His weak heart.
(b) Dehydration.
(c) A lack of oxygen.
(d) Starvation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a man say they will do if Leaphorn does not come down from the box?

2. What does Leaphorn say tells him that he will die of suffocation?

3. What had Leaphorn's maternal grandmother been?

4. How does Margaret describe the policeman she last talked to?

5. What kind of car does the author describe as battered green?

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