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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. On what errand does Chandler send Joanna?
(a) To find the third person in the cave.
(b) To go outside and check the weather.
(c) To count the diamonds.
(d) To find something in which to collect all the diamonds.

2. Where does Chandler position himself?
(a) Above the trail where Joanna will be descending.
(b) Hidden in the brush on the riverbank.
(c) So he can observe the last 100 yards of the trail.
(d) In the brush next to the top of the trail.

3. After Chandler talks about his diamonds, what does Joanna think?
(a) That he never intended to share them.
(b) That he is just saying "his diamonds" to give her a hard time.
(c) That saying "his diamonds" was just a slip of the tongue.
(d) That he will have to have an accident.

4. What happens as Bernie and Chandler are arguing?
(a) The old Hopi woman sneaks up and knocks out Chandler.
(b) It starts raining and water is sluicing down into the cave.
(c) Joe Leaphorn and an FBI agent appear.
(d) Chee appears with two tribal police.

5. What does Chandler manage to do while they are talking?
(a) To stash his gun in his boot so Joanna does not know he has one.
(b) To take Joanna's gun from her backpack.
(c) To hit a high powered alarm that will bring Plymale right to the two of them.
(d) Get his hunting knife into the hand that is hidden from Joanna's sight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Chandler and Joanna decide?

2. What is a violation of FAA law?

3. What concerns Chee as he is following Bernie's tracks?

4. Why does Bernie start exploring?

5. For whom is Chee searching?

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

3. After Joanna passes Chandler's hiding place, he calmly confronts her--why do you think she is so careless after having spotted Chandler on the canyon floor earlier?

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

5. How does Chee view the Colorado river?

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

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

8. What might be the implications of Bernie and Chee's relationship from the way they are interacting at the end of Chapter 28?

9. In Chapter 18, the Arizona death penalty is again mentioned as a reason to make a murder look accidental; does this seem like something a criminal would really be thinking?

10. What do you think is the purpose in Chapter 15 of the narrator reiterating many facts already known to the reader?

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