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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where will they go after picking up Billy?
(a) To the temporary FBI headquarters.
(b) To a Hopi ceremony.
(c) Into the canyon.
(d) To the tribal police station.

2. About what does Joe ask Shorty?
(a) Why Shorty doesn't move to a more populated area of the res.
(b) The diamond he claimed on his insurance form after a robbery.
(c) If he has any idea where Billy Tuve got a valuable diamond.
(d) If Shorty remembers seeing Billy Tuve the week before.

3. What is possibly foreshadowed at the end of this chapter?
(a) Sherman and Chandler intend to steal the diamonds from Plymale.
(b) That Sherman and Chandler will attempt to murder Billy.
(c) That Billy will kill Chandler and Sherman.
(d) That Sherman and Chandler intend to murder Chee.

4. What is Sherman to do?
(a) Talk to Joe Leaphorn.
(b) Find the old shaman in the dessert.
(c) Find Joanna and Billy.
(d) Go to the canyon floor.

5. What does Chee think he should be doing instead of investigating Billy Tuve's case?
(a) Practicing for the upcoming drumming contest.
(b) Working on the fence line before winter sets in.
(c) His carving flutes for the upcoming pow wow.
(d) Spend time with Bernie and put aside childish adventures.

6. What does Bernadette Manuelito admire on her way to Chee's trailer?
(a) The cumulus clouds.
(b) A few elk in the pasture.
(c) A coyote pair with cubs.
(d) A snake sunning on a rock.

7. Where did a plane crash in 1956?
(a) Over the Grand Canyon.
(b) Over the Black Mountains.
(c) In the Kalahari Desert.
(d) Just outside Las Vegas.

8. Where is Sherman?
(a) Tied up in a motel room.
(b) In his car with Billy.
(c) In critical condition in a hospital in Phoenix.
(d) Dead at the bottom of the canyon.

9. Who is Hal Simmons?
(a) Joe Leaphorn's contact in Santa Fe.
(b) An FBI agent.
(c) An attorney for Billy Tuve.
(d) Joanna Craig's attorney.

10. As Bernadette Manuelito sweetly remembers things about Jim Chee, what happens?
(a) She wonders how he is so sweet with so many mean relatives.
(b) Her doubts about her upcoming marriage to him dissipates.
(c) She wonders how he could have earned a silver star in the army.
(d) She remembers why she is there and starts crying.

11. How does Billy become mentally challenged?
(a) He suffers from fetal alcohol syndrome.
(b) He had a brain tumor removed.
(c) He was born with Down's Syndrome.
(d) He is rolled on by a horse as a young boy.

12. What does Joanna do when she observes Billy get in a car with someone and leave?
(a) Gets out her pistol and follows them.
(b) Goes back to town.
(c) Calls 911.
(d) Calls Joe Leaphorn.

13. Who is Bernadette Manuelito?
(a) Worked for Joe Leaphorn for almost 25 years.
(b) Graduated from the Tribal Police Academy, worked for Jim Chee whom she expects to marry soon, and did a short stint with the U.S. Border Patrol.
(c) Graduated from the Tribal Police Academy, worked for Joe Leaphorn whom she expects to marry soon, and did a short stint with the U.S. Border Patrol.
(d) Was the dispatcher for the Tribal Police Academy and played on their police softball team.

14. What is Brad Chandler doing?
(a) He is tailing Joanna.
(b) He is at the canyon rim, reviewing his preparations.
(c) He is heading down into the canyon on a copter.
(d) He is driving to Santa Fe to make contact with his employer.

15. What do the cops find at the motel where Chandler is supposed to be?
(a) Joe Leaphorn.
(b) Sherman.
(c) No one.
(d) Joanna.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Plymale?

2. In what month does the mystery begin?

3. Who tries to get Joanna's mother to abort Joanna and accept money?

4. What does Plymale want Chandler to do?

5. What kind of cult is someone starting?

(see the answer keys)

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