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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the bacteriologist characterize the parking lot she has been watching for several years from her lab's window?
(a) Even.
(b) Harried.
(c) Competitive.
(d) Stressful.

2. Whose brother was killed in the explosion at the oil well?
(a) Gordo Sena.
(b) Dillon Charley.
(c) Henry Becenti.
(d) B.J. Vines.

3. For how much money did B.J. Vines sell the rights to his uranium find to Anaconda?
(a) Ten million dollars.
(b) Two million dollars.
(c) Six million dollars.
(d) Eight million dollars.

4. Under what name does Colton Wolf rent the vehicle he gets once he leaves his trailer?
(a) Terry Fox.
(b) Benjamin Rhodes.
(c) James Nothan.
(d) Charles Minton.

5. When the reader is first introduced to Jim Chee, what day is it?
(a) December 3.
(b) October 30.
(c) November 30.
(d) November 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who placed the peyote chief under arrest after the oil well explosion?

2. What is the time of day when the tow truck arrives to remove the illegally parked truck?

3. How does B.J Vines characterize the oil well explosion?

4. As Chee drives into the desert, for whose home is Chee looking?

5. According to the rumor Chee heard, who had designed the Vines' home?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to what Chee learns while visiting his predecessor, how did the People of Darkness get their name?

2. Describe the person who illegally parks the truck in the parking lot while the bacteriologist watches from her window.

3. When he reaches the university campus, why is Wolf dressed as though he works for a mortuary?

4. According to what Chee learns from his predecessor, why did a group of roustabouts not go to work on the day the explosion occurred?

5. Even though Chee is curious about why Rosemary has requested his presence at her house, Chee does not ask her any questions. Why not?

6. According to Chee, why do Navajos lack sentimentality about corpses?

7. As Chee drives into the desert, he is listening to songs his uncle wants him to memorize. Why does his uncle want Chee to memorize these songs?

8. Why were the employees of the oil company going to "shoot" the oil well?

9. As the reader is first introduced to Jim Chee, what season is just beginning according to the traditional calendar of Dinee?

10. Why is Tsoodzil important to the Navajos?

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