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

2. What does Bernie want to do?
(a) Go look for apartments and wants Chee to go with her instead of Cowboy.
(b) Go with Chee and Cowboy.
(c) Have Billy stay with her for the time being.
(d) Go talk to Joanna woman to woman.

3. What are flyers offering?
(a) Ten thousand dollars for the arm and briefcase.
(b) An initiation into the Bear clan even if you are not Hopi.
(c) Ten thousand dollars for anyone who can find the shaman with the diamonds.
(d) A thousand dollars for Billy's life.

4. Who is Bernadette Manuelito?
(a) 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.
(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) Was the dispatcher for the Tribal Police Academy and played on their police softball team.
(d) Worked for Joe Leaphorn for almost 25 years.

5. What does Cowboy Dashee want Joe to do?
(a) Take his cousin Billy out to find the shaman who has the diamonds.
(b) Fly to Denver to interview Joanna Craig.
(c) Speak at a Tribal Governing Council.
(d) Help prove Billy Tuve's innocence.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Billy become mentally challenged?

2. What does the new law enforcement file contain?

3. Who unsuccessfully goes to see Billy Tuve?

4. What does Chandler tell Sherman?

5. What do both Jim and Chee question about Joanna's purse?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What in this chapter may foreshadow a future event?

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

4. Why do you think Fred Sherman, an ex-cop, is introduced as another "bad" guy?

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

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

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. 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?

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

10. What allusion to the allegory of Cat story is contained in Chapter 13?

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