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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 go outside and check the weather.
(b) To find something in which to collect all the diamonds.
(c) To count the diamonds.
(d) To find the third person in the cave.

2. What does Bernie order Joanna to do?
(a) Turn off the flashlight.
(b) Be quiet.
(c) Sit down.
(d) Put her hands up.

3. What is a violation of FAA law?
(a) Landing a helicopter at the Phoenix airport.
(b) Flying a helicopter over sacred Hopi lands.
(c) Landing on the canyon floor.
(d) Landing a helicopter within a thousand feet of a sacred monument.

4. What does Chandler do when Joanna passes his hiding place?
(a) He shoots her.
(b) He knocks her out with a rock.
(c) He trips her and she falls the rest of the way down the trail.
(d) He calmly confronts her.

5. What do Chandler and Joanna decide?
(a) To work together against Plymale and that Joanna can keep the arm.
(b) To kill Plymale when they return to Washington.
(c) To kill Billy after he has led them to the diamonds.
(d) To wait for Billy Tuve to lead them to the diamonds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bernie ask Joanna?

2. At whom is Chee staring?

3. Why is Joanna reluctant to climb off the ledge when Bernie thinks it is safe?

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

5. What does Bernie say that allays the old woman's fears?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think Hillerman has Tuve disappear?

2. How is Bernie's assurance about Chandler highly ironic in the scheme of the history of Native Americans?

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

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

5. What seems surprising in this story at this point in the book?

6. What do you think may be Chandler's ultimate end in this saga?

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

8. Why do you think Cowboy Dashee is part of this story since it seems he did not contribute much in previous chapters and he is now out of the story because of his ankle?

9. Why do you think Joanna avoids the violent death that may be awaiting Chandler at the hand of the water?

10. What theme seems to come to fruition in this chapter?

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