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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. Who is going to go together to pick up Billy?
(a) Chee, Jim and Bernie.
(b) Bernie and Chee.
(c) Joe, Chee and Jim.
(d) Bernie, Joe and Chee.

2. What about Jim Chee does Bernadette Manuelito remember?
(a) His way with horses.
(b) A tendency to understate a situation.
(c) His kind ways.
(d) His strict adherence to traditions.

3. Who arrives in New Mexico at the beginning of this chapter?
(a) Jon Running Brave.
(b) Joanna Craig.
(c) Joe Leaphorn.
(d) Jim Chee.

4. What upsets Joe about Shorty's death?
(a) That Joe never said goodbye to Shorty.
(b) That Shorty was younger than Joe.
(c) Nothin; Joe does not know Shorty.
(d) That all Joe's old friends are dying.

5. What does Chandler tell Sherman?
(a) About the air crash and Joanna's quest.
(b) About how there are millions of dollars worth of diamonds some where in the canyon.
(c) That the kid who is charged with the crime is not guilty.
(d) That Joanna may show up and Sherman is to get rid of her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Sherman?

2. What does Chee think he should be doing instead of investigating Billy Tuve's case?

3. What does Chandler figure will happen to Plymale if Joanna's lineage is irrefutably proven?

4. What are flyers offering?

5. How does Billy become mentally challenged?

Short Essay Questions

1. What event is the starting point for what becomes known as the Skeleton Man case?

2. There are several inconsistencies in Chapter 13; name one of them.

3. How are Chandler and Plymale archetypes of the type of white man that imposed their way upon Native Americans?

4. How does Sam Pinto illustrate Joe's theory by enumerating a theoretical series of events?

5. What seems to be a likely foreshadowing of a coming event?

6. How does the author introduce the Navajo setting and a little of their philosophy?

7. What does the telephone conversation between Bernie and Chee say about their relationship?

8. Why do you think Hillerman stereotypes characters such as Chandler and Plymale, making them one-dimensional?

9. At this point in the story, do you believe it when Joanna says that she seeks only her father's arm to end his pain in the afterlife and is not interested in the diamonds?

10. The fact that Sherman survives the shooting by Joanna could have several implications; name one of them.

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