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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 Joanna encounter as she is walking up the slope?
(a) Bernie walking down.
(b) Chee and Joe.
(c) Billy Tuve.
(d) The old Hopi woman.

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

3. Where is Bernie assigned to stay?
(a) At a Hopi tent site.
(b) In the base camp.
(c) At the foot of the sacred Hopi Salt Trail that leads to the Salt Woman Shrine.
(d) In a small cave hidden by brush.

4. After the flooding stops, what does Chee do?
(a) Goes back to check on Cowboy.
(b) Radios for help.
(c) Waits to see if Bernie comes out of the slot.
(d) Goes to look for Bernie.

5. What does Chandler admonish Joanna to do?
(a) To be ready to flee after they grab the diamonds.
(b) Shine the flashlight only when necessary as the batteries are low.
(c) Keep her gun ready.
(d) Keep her voice low.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Chandler and Joanna decide?

2. What does the Shaman preach?

3. Why does Chandler not grasp the branch with both hands to save himself?

4. What does Chandler manage to do while they are talking?

5. What does Bernie realize after seeing the gun?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the old Hopi woman warns Bernie that she shouldn't be there, the woman then warms up to her; why do you think this is?

2. 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?

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

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

5. What so you think is the significance in the different responses to the shaman's body between that of Chandler and Joanna?

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

7. What does Chee find that probably points to future events?

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

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

10. 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?

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