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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 comparison is made in this first chapter?
(a) Between thiefs and cops.
(b) Between men and women.
(c) Between White and Native American values.
(d) Between life and death.

2. How much does Billy Tuve want for the item?
(a) $10,000.
(b) $500.
(c) $50.
(d) $20.

3. Where is Billy?
(a) He left with a stranger earlier that morning.
(b) He left New Mexico for Arizona.
(c) He is with Joanna.
(d) He escapes from jail.

4. Where will they go after picking up Billy?
(a) To the temporary FBI headquarters.
(b) To a Hopi ceremony.
(c) To the tribal police station.
(d) Into the canyon.

5. What did John Clarke have in his possession on the aircraft?
(a) A kilo of cocaine.
(b) A case of diamonds handcuffed to his wrist.
(c) A million dollars in counterfeit hundred dollar bills.
(d) Four pounds of meth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chandler do for a living?

2. What do the cops find at the motel where Chandler is supposed to be?

3. Where is Billy?

4. What does Chandler have to do with Seattle?

5. What does Joanna hope will prove her kinship to John Clarke?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why do you think Hillerman introduces a character, Louisa Berbonette, in Chapter 5, who plays no part in the rest of the story?

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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