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

2. What does the Shaman preach?
(a) The preference of death over life in an ugly world.
(b) The victory of life over death in a spirit battle.
(c) That all who choose death live.
(d) That the life of one is the same as all.

3. What are the two sets of tracks that Chee finds?
(a) One is a size 12 new hiking boots and one is a petite track, maybe Bernie's.
(b) An very lightweight woman and a dog.
(c) A cougar and a man.
(d) A mama bear and her cub.

4. What does Joanna ask Chandler to do?
(a) To look around and make sure the noise she hears is nothing.
(b) To call the helicopter which dropped him in the canyon.
(c) To take the diamonds and leave her the gun.
(d) Stop treating her father's arm so disrespectfully.

5. What is wrong with Cowboy Dashee?
(a) He broke his ankle.
(b) He got bit by a rattler.
(c) He broke his wrist.
(d) He is shot by Chandler.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bernie realize after seeing the gun?

2. What does Chandler do when Joanna passes his hiding place?

3. Who else does Chandler see observing him?

4. What does Bernie leave Billy?

5. How does Chandler respond to Joanna's entreaty?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why do you think Hillerman has Tuve disappear?

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

5. 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?

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

7. 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?

8. How does Chee view the Colorado river?

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

10. 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?

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