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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are the tracks?
(a) On two parallel horizontal trails.
(b) On the same trail and same direction but not made at the same time.
(c) On the same trail, but one going up and one coming down.
(d) On two parallel vertical trails.

2. Who is waiting when Bernie returns to where she was to stay?
(a) Chee and Jim.
(b) Billy.
(c) An old Hopi woman.
(d) Joanna.

3. Who does Bernie see holding the arm and gun?
(a) Joanna.
(b) Chandler.
(c) Neither has the arm; it is still lying by the snuff cans.
(d) Chandler has the gun; Joanna has the arm.

4. What does Joanna try to convince Chandler to do?
(a) Put his gun away.
(b) Split the diamonds with her.
(c) Take the diamonds and leave her alone.
(d) Take the diamonds and then when she proves her case, she will give him another million.

5. Who does Joanna encounter as she is walking up the slope?
(a) The old Hopi woman.
(b) Bernie walking down.
(c) Chee and Joe.
(d) Billy Tuve.

6. What else comes out of the cave/slot?
(a) Bernie.
(b) The coyote's cubs.
(c) Chandler.
(d) Joanna.

7. Where does Chandler position himself?
(a) In the brush next to the top of the trail.
(b) Above the trail where Joanna will be descending.
(c) Hidden in the brush on the riverbank.
(d) So he can observe the last 100 yards of the trail.

8. Who is the Kachina spirit who taught the Hopi not to fear death?
(a) Matwa or the Skeleton Man.
(b) Kachinili.
(c) Hoopiala.
(d) Osiwa.

9. At whom is Chee staring?
(a) Joanna.
(b) Joe Leapman.
(c) Bernie.
(d) Cowboy Dashee.

10. What does Chandler surmise about Joanna?
(a) She probably killed Billy Tuve.
(b) She is probably not alone.
(c) She is too timid to use her gun.
(d) She must be the one who shot Sherman and likely has a gun.

11. What do the two woman hear as they ease off the ledge?
(a) A horse neighing.
(b) A voice.
(c) A helicopter.
(d) A gunshot.

12. What happens as Bernie and Chandler are arguing?
(a) It starts raining and water is sluicing down into the cave.
(b) Chee appears with two tribal police.
(c) Joe Leaphorn and an FBI agent appear.
(d) The old Hopi woman sneaks up and knocks out Chandler.

13. What does she decide about Joanna and Chandler?
(a) They are armed and dangerous.
(b) They do not know where they are.
(c) They will take the diamonds and leave shortly.
(d) They are lost tourists.

14. About what is Chee thinking when he notices the water pouring out of the slot?
(a) How he wishes he had gone apartment hunting after all.
(b) If Cowboy is safe from the rushing water.
(c) The fate of Bernie.
(d) The way the Colorado river has cut some many channels into hard rock.

15. Whose voice do they hear?
(a) Chee's.
(b) The old Hopi woman.
(c) Cowboy's.
(d) Chandler's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bernie say that allays the old woman's fears?

2. How does Chandler get to the floor of the canyon?

3. Who does Bernie hear as she is about to leave the cave?

4. Why does Chee call the Park Service?

5. What is Chandler's reply?

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