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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 does Leaphorn use to cut the nylon string that binds Tso's ankles?

2. What word does Leaphorn hear the Tuba City dispatcher say?

3. What has goldrims dropped into the cave entrance?

4. What is the name of the company Goldrims worked for?

5. What does the dispatcher say the juvenile subjects are wearing?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Leaphorn kill the dog when it attacks him the second time?

2. Why does Leaphorn think Theodora and Benjamin are in trouble?

3. What does Leaphorn learn about the Boy Scouts in this section?

4. How does Benjamin Tso die?

5. Where does Leaphorn know James Tso from?

6. What information does Father Benjamin tell Leaphorn about his family?

7. What new information does Witover give Leaphorn?

8. How does Leaphorn find the groceries?

9. What problems does Leaphorn have at the beginning of Chapter 13?

10. Why is the name Haas important?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Leaphorn rescue the hostages? Were there any other ways Leaphorn could have rescued the hostages? What meaning does it give the story that all the hostages escape unharmed?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

What are the motives of the criminals? How would the meaning of the book change if the criminals were successful?

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