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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the new suspect that has a record and a motive in Chapter 9?
(a) Rocko Delbert.
(b) Randall Elliot.
(c) Garrison Tsosie.
(d) Charley Zah.

2. When Chee talks to Bernie on the phone in Chapter 10, he tells her that Darleen had called the previous day frantic because she believed what had happened?
(a) Her mother had been kidnapped.
(b) Her son had been kidnapped.
(c) Her car had been stolen.
(d) Her boyfriend had been shot.

3. Bernie stops at a convenience store on the way to her mother’s house that is located where in Chapter 10?
(a) US 23 and Navajo Route 24.
(b) US 345 and Navajo Route 12.
(c) US 643 and Navajo Route 10.
(d) US 491 and Navajo Route 18.

4. What does Bernie order for lunch at the café in Chapter 7?
(a) Beef fajitas.
(b) Potato soup.
(c) Beans and rice.
(d) Goat stew.

5. When Bernie returns home from her morning run in Chapter 10, she’s received a voice message from a man who rents a house from whom?
(a) Leonard Nez.
(b) Officer Wheeler.
(c) Austin Lee.
(d) Jackson Benally.

6. Where does Chee say Leaphorn has been transferred to a different hospital when he calls her at her mother’s house in Chapter 4?
(a) Shiprock.
(b) Toadlena.
(c) Albuquerque.
(d) Santa Fe.

7. What does Bernie cook for her mother when she visits in Chapter 4?
(a) Cornbread and roast beef.
(b) Potato pancakes and apricot sauce.
(c) Peanut butter sandwiches and macaroni and cheese.
(d) Scrambled eggs, toast, and applesauce.

8. Who calls Bernie from AIRC in Chapter 10?
(a) Jackson Benally.
(b) Dr. John Collingsworth.
(c) Rocko Delbert.
(d) Dr. Maxie Davis.

9. What officer does Bernie encounter at the convenience store she stops at on her way to her mother’s in Chapter 10?
(a) Officer Bigman.
(b) Officer Wheeler.
(c) Officer Chee.
(d) Officer Morris.

10. What word from Chapter 4 is the Navajo word referring to traditional healers and doctors?
(a) Nirvana.
(b) Dinetah.
(c) Hataalii.
(d) Bilagáana.

11. What location is described in Chapter 6 as “one of the sacred places in the origin stories, the spot where Changing Woman gave birth to the Hero Twins who made the world safe for people”?
(a) Crownpoint.
(b) Huerfano Mesa.
(c) Toadlena.
(d) Cuba.

12. Joe Leaphorn is described in Chapter 1 as a retired police lieutenant of what force?
(a) Santa Fe Police.
(b) Navaho Police.
(c) Gallup Police.
(d) Cuba Police.

13. Who is the next-door neighbor that Bernie calls to come over and sit with her mother until her sister returns home in Chapter 4?
(a) Austin Lee.
(b) Eleanor Friedman-Bernal.
(c) Louisa Bourbonette.
(d) Stella Darkwater.

14. Who is at Leaphorn’s house looking at his computer and files when Bernie arrives there to check for Louisa again in Chapter 4?
(a) Officer Morris.
(b) Officer Wheeler.
(c) Officer Bigman.
(d) Agent Cordova.

15. Where did Officer Bernie drive from for the Monday meeting in Chapter 1?
(a) Cuba.
(b) Gallup.
(c) Shiprock.
(d) Santa Fe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Bernie’s mother live in the novel?

2. What is described on Bernie’s journey in Chapter 6 as “the little settlement west of Farmington”?

3. What is the name of the woman that Joe Leaphorn lives with?

4. Where does Largo tell Chee to work on the case because it’s less hectic at that office in Chapter 3?

5. What is the name of the woman that the suspicious car belongs to at the grocery store in Chapter 3?

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