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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. What is Chandler's reply?
(a) She can use her charm to convince the woman not to hurt them.
(b) Joanna might become dangerous if she has her gun.
(c) The woman obviously does not have a gun or she would have stopped them already.
(d) He hands her a gun.

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

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

4. What does she decide about Joanna and Chandler?
(a) They will take the diamonds and leave shortly.
(b) They do not know where they are.
(c) They are armed and dangerous.
(d) They are lost tourists.

5. For what else does Bernie ask?
(a) Their cooperation.
(b) Their permit to be in the canyon without a guide.
(c) A flare from their pack to notify the rangers.
(d) A drink from their canteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joanna ask Chandler to do?

2. What do Chandler and Joanna think happened to the Shaman?

3. What is Cowboy Dashee trying to do?

4. What happens when Bernie and Chee are reunited?

5. What does Bernie demand?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why do you think Hillerman has Tuve disappear?

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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 theme seems to come to fruition in this chapter?

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