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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. For whom is Chee searching?
(a) The old shaman.
(b) Joanna.
(c) Chandler.
(d) Bernie.
2. Who is the Kachina spirit who taught the Hopi not to fear death?
(a) Osiwa.
(b) Hoopiala.
(c) Kachinili.
(d) Matwa or the Skeleton Man.
3. What is Cowboy Dashee trying to do?
(a) Shoot Chandler.
(b) Catch Billy Tuve.
(c) Flag down Bernie.
(d) Remove one of his boots.
4. At whom is Chee staring?
(a) Bernie.
(b) Joe Leapman.
(c) Joanna.
(d) Cowboy Dashee.
5. What is an accurate word to describe Chandler?
(a) Placid.
(b) Easygoing.
(c) Optimistic.
(d) Ruthless.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Chee think probably happens to Chandler?
2. What does Chandler do when Joanna passes his hiding place?
3. What has Chandler given up?
4. What does Bernie realize after seeing the gun?
5. Despite how she feels, what does Joanna decide to do?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why do you think Joanna avoids the violent death that may be awaiting Chandler at the hand of the water?
2. What does Hillerman use Bernie for and why?
3. What so you think is the significance in the different responses to the shaman's body between that of Chandler and Joanna?
4. How is Bernie's assurance about Chandler highly ironic in the scheme of the history of Native Americans?
5. In Chapter 16, the reader learns more about the Hopi legend of the Skeleton Man, for which the book is named; what is this legend?
6. What could be a more sinister reason for Chandler giving Joanne back the arm bone of her father?
7. What theme seems to come to fruition in this chapter?
8. Do you think the scene of Bernie finding the diamonds and arm is anti-climatic and why?
9. What do you think is the purpose in Chapter 15 of the narrator reiterating many facts already known to the reader?
10. What do you think may be Chandler's ultimate end in this saga?
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