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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 does Bernie hear as she is about to leave the cave?
(a) Cowboy and Chee.
(b) Billy Tuve.
(c) Chandler and Joanna.
(d) Chee.

2. Where is Bernie going after finding the stuff in the cave?
(a) To find the old Hopi woman.
(b) To get Chee and Cowboy.
(c) To mark the slot entrance in order to find it again.
(d) To call the Park Service.

3. What do Chandler and Joanna think happened to the Shaman?
(a) Chandler thinks he was murdered but Joanna thinks it was just his time.
(b) Chandler thinks he killed himself and Joanna thinks he died by an accident.
(c) Chandler thinks he was murdered but Joanna thinks he had an accident.
(d) Chandler thinks he had an accident and Joanna thinks he was murdered.

4. When does Mary become cooperative with Bernie?
(a) When Bernie tells her of her partly Hopi upbringing.
(b) When Bernie reminds her of her Hopi grandmother.
(c) When Chee returns and formally introduces Bernie to Mary.
(d) When Bernie explains she is trying to save a Hopi boy from wrongful imprisonment.

5. Where does Chee manage to get Cowboy Dashee?
(a) A few feet futher down into the canyon to await a helicopter.
(b) To the side of the trail where there is a flat area for a helicopter.
(c) Most of the way up the canyon to a ledge for the helicopter.
(d) To the pool beside the Salt Woman Shrine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chandler admit?

2. Despite how she feels, what does Joanna decide to do?

3. Who leads Joanna down the most dangerous part of the trail and leaves her some water?

4. What happens as Bernie and Chandler are arguing?

5. What are the two sets of tracks that Chee finds?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do you think Joanna's decision to continue down to the canyon floor indicates?

2. Why do you think Chandler gives Joanne back the arm bone of her father?

3. How does Hillerman emphasize his attitude towards the "white man"?

4. What seems incongruous about Bernie avoiding looking at the shaman?

5. What does Hillerman use Bernie for and why?

6. What reveals Bernie's training as a tribal police woman?

7. What is incongruous in Chapter 26 that conflicts with something narrated in Chapter 14?

8. 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?

9. What could be a more sinister reason for Chandler giving Joanne back the arm bone of her father?

10. Do you think the scene of Bernie finding the diamonds and arm is anti-climatic and why?

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