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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 shoots Sherman?
(a) Joanna.
(b) Billy.
(c) Chee.
(d) Joe Leaphorn.

2. Who is Fred Sherman?
(a) Joanna's brother.
(b) An ex-cop Chandler hires.
(c) Chee's ex-brother-in-law.
(d) An FBI agent on the diamond case.

3. What kind of cult is someone starting?
(a) One about Billy Tuve and his vision of the shaman.
(b) A merging of Hopi and Navajo dances.
(c) One surrounding the Kachina Masaw.
(d) One about an one-armed fugitive.

4. Why can't Billy Tuve tell Cowboy and Jim what he is doing in the canyon when he gets the diamond?
(a) He cannot remember the original reason he went there.
(b) He is on "Kiva" business and therefore it is secret.
(c) He can tell them but it has to be in the Hopi native tongue.
(d) Someone has told him they will kill his mother if he tells.

5. What does Joe think is Joanna Craig's motivation?
(a) He has no idea.
(b) Fame.
(c) Revenge.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much does Billy Tuve want for the item?

2. Why is Joe Leaphorn restless?

3. Who is Plymale?

4. What makes Billy open up to Joanna?

5. What upsets Joe about Shorty's death?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Joe illustrate his thoughts about events arising from a complex and often invisible series of causes and effects?

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

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

5. What do you think is the main purpose of this short chapter?

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

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

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

9. How does Hillerman use the story of the cat in Chapter 6 for more than one purpose?

10. Why do you think the discussion of Kiva and Native American rites are included in Chapter 8?

(see the answer keys)

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