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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 does Bernie ask Joanna?
(a) If Joanna is with the man voluntarily.
(b) About who the man with her is.
(c) About having a gun.
(d) About why they are in this cave.

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

3. Why does Bernie start exploring?
(a) She hears someone whistling.
(b) She becomes intrigued by the natural beauty around the area.
(c) She sees a man on a ledge.
(d) She hears a sound in the brush.

4. What does Chandler do when Joanna passes his hiding place?
(a) He calmly confronts 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 shoots her.

5. What does the old shaman who lives on the side of the canyon claim?
(a) To speak to Hopi ancestors.
(b) To be Matwa.
(c) To have lots of diamonds.
(d) To know all Hopi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Shaman preach?

2. Who does Joanna spot on the canyon floor by the river?

3. What is an accurate word to describe Chandler?

4. What does Chandler admonish Joanna to do?

5. What are other significant finds that Bernie makes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hillerman use Bernie for and why?

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

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

4. How does Chandler unconsciously give away his intentions in the scene where he and Joanna discover the snuff cans?

5. Why do you think Hillerman has Tuve disappear?

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

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

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

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

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

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