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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 the road to Tso's hogan listed as?

2. What is Charley's rank?

3. Who does McGinis say the boy claimed killed his dog?

4. Who does Leaphorn suggest screwed up the Tso case?

5. What is McGinnis drinking when Leaphorn arrives?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Who is Benjamin Tso?

7. What information does Leaphorn have about the Mercedes?

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

9. How does Begay escape in this section?

10. Why does McGinnis leave a For Sale sign outside his business?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

LISTENING WOMAN is part of the detective genre.

1) What are the conventions of the genre in terms of character, language and plot?

2) In what way did the Leaphorn series help to set the template for similar books? Do modern books still use the ideas the author uses in Listening Woman?

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

The author wrote LISTENING WOMAN in the third person. Why do you think the author chose to write the story in the third person? How do you think the meaning of the story would change if the author wrote it in the first person?

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