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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. How is Joanna able to invoke the attorney-client privilege?
(a) She is an attorney and she declares Billy as her client.
(b) She brings her attorney with her.
(c) She does so but it is not a legal manuever.
(d) She asks Billy to declare her his guardian ad litem.

2. Why is Joe Leaphorn restless?
(a) He drank way too much coffee.
(b) He hasn't been sleeping well lately.
(c) He has no new case to solve.
(d) He just retired from the Navajo Police Force

3. What does Chee think he should be doing instead of investigating Billy Tuve's case?
(a) Spend time with Bernie and put aside childish adventures.
(b) Practicing for the upcoming drumming contest.
(c) Working on the fence line before winter sets in.
(d) His carving flutes for the upcoming pow wow.

4. Why do the Zunis have their rain dance ceremony before their rodeo?
(a) So that it will rain and cool off the participants.
(b) So it will keep the dust down in the arena when it rains.
(c) Having it before rodeo kept the cowboys from getting hurt.
(d) Because there is a time lag between the dance and when the rain comes.

5. For what is Joanna Craig searching?
(a) Her father's body.
(b) A fossil of a rare mollusk.
(c) Artifacts from a heretofore unknown native American tribe.
(d) Missing diamonds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What case has recently been solved?

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

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

4. How does Billy become mentally challenged?

5. What does Tuve claim?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. At the beginning of Chapter 1, what is there that would clue the reader in on the possibility that this book will be based upon a flashback to an earlier date?

7. 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?

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

9. What in this chapter may foreshadow a future event?

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

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