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

2. As Bernadette Manuelito sweetly remembers things about Jim Chee, what happens?
(a) She remembers why she is there and starts crying.
(b) Her doubts about her upcoming marriage to him dissipates.
(c) She wonders how he could have earned a silver star in the army.
(d) She wonders how he is so sweet with so many mean relatives.

3. What saves Jim from a crazy woman who believed him to be a skinwalker?
(a) A coyote howl.
(b) A dream.
(c) His stray cat.
(d) His pan trap that she tripped and made a racket.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Kachina Masaw?

2. Why do the Zunis have their rain dance ceremony before their rodeo?

3. What does Chandler have to do with Seattle?

4. What comparison is made in this first chapter?

5. What did Reno tell Shorty about an old man from whom he got a horse?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What about the difference between white and Native American culture does Hillerman seem to be again emphasizing. Why do you as a reader respond to this obvious stereotyping?

4. How is the story about Cat an allegory for what Chee has encountered in his life?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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