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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 name of the final roustabout's relative?

2. When Chee realizes that the killer is in the hospital, where does Chee hide?

3. When Chee asks Mary to leave town, she refuses. What does Mary insist on doing instead?

4. As Wolf drives away from the malpais, how much over the speed limit does Wolf drive?

5. When Chee and Mary cannot locate the final roustabout, where do they find his relative?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Chee not simply leave his room when he sees that Wolf is in the hospital?

2. What is so unusual about the men who were part of the roustabout crew, as well as the men in the Charley family?

3. When Chee has trouble sleeping and sneaks out of his hospital room, what does he discover when he reaches the area he intended to visit?

4. After Chee and Mary discover the dead body, why does Chee yell at Mary to run?

5. What is the goal of the Navajo Way?

6. As Wolf slips out of the hospital, what does Wolf suddenly realize?

7. As Wolf kills the person who approaches him as he reaches Chee's floor, why does the murder not cause any alarm on the floor?

8. When Chee and Mary find an article discussing the arrest of Dillon Charley in the days after the explosion, what is NOT mentioned?

9. According to what Chee tells Mary, how does one become a Navajo witch?

10. After shooting Chee at the malpais, why does Wolf decide to go after both Chee and Mary?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jim Chee and Henry Becenti can be seen as kindred spirits. Although they are not quite the same, they share a number of similarities. Identify and describe these similarities. Then, based on your discussion of their similarities, identify the ways in which these two men's similarities facilitate the plot's development and moves the story forward.

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the story, there are several attempts made on Chee's life.

a. Identify at least three attempts on Chee's life. Describe the situation and how Chee escapes.

b. Compare and contrast the situations in which the attempts are made on Chee's life. What is the motivation in each of these situations to kill Chee?

Essay Topic 3

There are several characters introduced in the story who do not survive the end of the story. Identify at least three people killed as the novel progresses. Compare and contrast each of these deaths, being sure to indicate which character died, how the character died, who was responsible for the character's death, and what effect on the overall plot the character's death had. What could have - or should have - been learned from each of these deaths by the other characters?

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