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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 White and Native American values.
(b) Between life and death.
(c) Between men and women.
(d) Between thiefs and cops.

2. What does Chandler do for a living?
(a) Actor.
(b) Bounty hunter and skip tracer.
(c) CEO of his family's firm.
(d) Assassin.

3. What does Chandler learn about Joanna?
(a) That she went back home to Minnesota.
(b) That she is already down in the canyon.
(c) That she just made a call from Sherman's phone.
(d) That she fell off a cliff and is in a hospital.

4. What does Plymale want Chandler to do?
(a) Kill Billy Tuve.
(b) Find the rest of the diamonds.
(c) Kill Joanna Craig.
(d) Find Joe Clarke's left arm.

5. About what does Joe ask Shorty?
(a) The diamond he claimed on his insurance form after a robbery.
(b) If he has any idea where Billy Tuve got a valuable diamond.
(c) Why Shorty doesn't move to a more populated area of the res.
(d) If Shorty remembers seeing Billy Tuve the week before.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Bernadette Manuelito sweetly remembers things about Jim Chee, what happens?

2. Where is Sherman?

3. Who is Billy Tuve?

4. What is the area in which Bernadette Manuelito experiencing right now?

5. What does Plymale say about Joanna Craig?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is a Caucasian woman from New York related to a case that takes place on Navajo lands in New Mexico?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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