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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Theodora's father's job?

2. What time does Tso say he was operated on?

3. What is the name of the society that is as militant as you get?

4. Where does Leaphorn meet McGinnis?

5. Where do the witches initiate people into the clan of wolves?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Benjamin say he has come to his grandfather's hogan?

2. How did Leaphorn change when he went to college?

3. What are the three open cases Leaphorn currently has on the go?

4. What did Tso ask McGinnis to write to his grandson?

5. What does Leaphorn find out about Adams at the beginning of this section?

6. What information does Listening Woman give Leaphorn about the case?

7. How do Leaphorn's Navajo origins affect him in his police work?

8. What vision does Listening Woman have in this section?

9. What does Leaphorn discover after he finds the tracks?

10. How did Adams meet Benjamin?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the book's dialogue. How does the author's dialogue contribute to the following areas?

1. Character

2. Setting

3. Plot

Essay Topic 2

Compare Leaphorn's character to the person he was at the beginning of the book to the he is at the end.

1. What did Leaphorn hope to achieve at the beginning of the book?

2. What events changes Leaphorn ideas about life?

3. How has Leaphorn's character changed by the end of the book?

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of Tony Hillerman's previous books and contrast it with the LISTENING WOMAN in terms of the following;

1. Style.

2. Structure.

3. Themes.

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