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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. Of what does Chee dream?
(a) Of finding the diamonds and the old man.
(b) Of becoming a shaman, a holy man, for his people.
(c) Of learning the white man's ways enough to defeat them legally.
(d) Having children with Bernie and teaching one of them to be a shaman.

2. With whom does Joe just have a long conversation?
(a) Chee.
(b) Louisa.
(c) Jim.
(d) Joanna.

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

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

5. What does Chandler have to do with Seattle?
(a) His daughter goes to a boarding school there.
(b) He was raised in Seattle.
(c) His family's comglomerate is there.
(d) He is the suspect in an unsolved homicide in Seattle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What case has recently been solved?

2. What is possibly foreshadowed at the end of this chapter?

3. Who is Fred Sherman?

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

5. Who was Joanna's mother's attorney?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Do you think Louisa's condemnation of the modern pollution of ancient myths is totally logical?

3. 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?

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

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

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

7. 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?

8. What story does Shorty tell that is the motivation for the setting moving to the floor of the Grand Canyon?

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

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

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