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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. What do both Jim and Chee question about Joanna's purse?
(a) Who did the ornate beadwork.
(b) Why it is so heavy.
(c) Why it was so tiny as to hold almost nothing.
(d) How someone could carry an animal pelt as a bag.

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

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

4. For what is Joanna Craig searching?
(a) A fossil of a rare mollusk.
(b) Missing diamonds.
(c) Her father's body.
(d) Artifacts from a heretofore unknown native American tribe.

5. What does the new law enforcement file contain?
(a) A case of blackmail.
(b) A case of embezzlement.
(c) A robbery and homicide of a jeweler in the nearby town of Zuni.
(d) A case of rape and robbery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bernie want to do?

2. What makes Billy open up to Joanna?

3. Why can't Billy Tuve tell Cowboy and Jim what he is doing in the canyon when he gets the diamond?

4. What about Jim Chee does Bernadette Manuelito remember?

5. What is Sherman to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. In a mystery, every sentence offers clues, either about the case or about the characters that are part of the case; what does the reader learn early on about Joe Leaphorn from one sentence?

2. How is a Caucasian woman from New York related to a case that takes place on Navajo lands in New Mexico?

3. What does Joanna say that gains Billy Tuve's attention and why?

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

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

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

7. 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?

8. When you read that the bail has been suspended for Billy Tuve and why, what is your reaction?

9. How do the two characters introduced in Chapter 3 contrast with each other?

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

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