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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How tall is Officer Bernie said to be in Chapter 1?
(a) 5’2”.
(b) 6'.
(c) 5’7”.
(d) 5’5”.

2. What magazine does Bernie get at the convenience store to take to her mother in Chapter 10?
(a) People.
(b) Time.
(c) Home and Garden.
(d) Woman’s Day.

3. At what elevation is Shiprock, New Mexico said to be at in Chapter 5?
(a) 9,000 feet.
(b) 7,000 feet.
(c) 6,000 feet.
(d) 4,000 feet.

4. What does the narrator say Bernie’s Navajo name is in Chapter 2?
(a) Laughing Girl.
(b) Spider Woman.
(c) Spider’s Daughter.
(d) Coyote Child.

5. Who is Jim Chee’s uncle that Bernie had last visited in the hospital, according to the narrator in Chapter 6?
(a) Randall Elliot.
(b) Hosteen Nakai.
(c) Austin Lee.
(d) Rocko Delbert.

6. What term in Chapter 3 is the Navajo name for white people?
(a) Hataalii.
(b) Dinetah.
(c) Nirvana.
(d) Bilagáana.

7. Chee tells Bernie in Chapter 8 that Mrs. Banally won a big award from the tribal government back when who was president?
(a) Austin Lee.
(b) Joe Shirley Jr.
(c) Captain Largo.
(d) Rocko Delbert.

8. Where does Officer Bernie say the suspect who shot Joe Leaphorn went after the shooting in Chapter 1?
(a) West on 264.
(b) East on 180.
(c) North on 666.
(d) South on 143.

9. Who radios Chee to let him know they have a vehicle that could be the shooter’s in the end of Chapter 2?
(a) Officer Morris.
(b) Captain Largo.
(c) Officer Bigman.
(d) Officer Wheeler.

10. Who is described in Joe Leaphorn’s case files as having “killed a Utah rancher, and almost killed a woman he worked with” before disappearing, in Chapter 5?
(a) Leonard Nez.
(b) Randall Elliot.
(c) Charley Zah.
(d) Delos.

11. 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 643 and Navajo Route 10.
(c) US 345 and Navajo Route 12.
(d) US 491 and Navajo Route 18.

12. What word in Chapter 6 refers to freedom from the endless cycle of personal reincarnations and suffering in Hinduism?
(a) Nirvana.
(b) Dinetah.
(c) Hataalii.
(d) Bilagáana.

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

14. Where does Louisa tell Chee and Bernie she’s calling from in Chapter 5?
(a) Albuquerque.
(b) Crownpoint.
(c) Toadlena.
(d) Santa Fe.

15. The suspect who shoots Joe Leaphorn in Chapter 1 is said to have a license plate from what state on his vehicle?
(a) Utah.
(b) Colorado.
(c) Arizona.
(d) New Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old does the car’s owner at the grocery store parking lot say her son is in Chapter 3?

2. What does Bernie surmise “WR” stands for in Leaphorn’s cryptic journal in Chapter 7?

3. What reservation does Chee express regarding Agent Cordova in Chapter 9?

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

5. Who interrogates Jackson Banally in Chapter 8?

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