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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) Billy.
(b) Joe Leaphorn.
(c) Joanna.
(d) Chee.

2. Who does Joanna bail out of jail?
(a) Billy Too Brave.
(b) Billy Tuve.
(c) Joe Lakewater.
(d) William Warhorse.

3. What upsets Joe about Shorty's death?
(a) That Shorty was younger than Joe.
(b) That Joe never said goodbye to Shorty.
(c) That all Joe's old friends are dying.
(d) Nothin; Joe does not know Shorty.

4. Who answers Sherman's phone?
(a) The old shaman.
(b) Joanna.
(c) No one.
(d) A cop named Mora.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Joe Leaphorn restless?

2. What does Bernadette Manuelito admire on her way to Chee's trailer?

3. Where will they go after picking up Billy?

4. Who do many people in the canyon area speculate the old man is who found the diamond case?

5. In what month does the mystery begin?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What besides Billy's brain injury could be a reason for his inability to give a date of his Kiva ritual?

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

8. The focus on the possibility of rain continues in this chapter; name several hints that the weather may play a role in the story.

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

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

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