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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 reservation does Chee express regarding Agent Cordova in Chapter 9?
(a) He thinks Cordova is flirting with Bernie.
(b) He thinks Cordova might be involved in the shooting.
(c) He thinks Cordova might be extorting Louisa.
(d) He thinks Cordova is overstepping his bounds in the investigation.

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

3. What does Bernie not find in Louisa’s room in Chapter 2?
(a) Empty hangers.
(b) A suitcase.
(c) A bed.
(d) Shoes.

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

5. How far will Bernie be driving to visit Joe Leaphorn (each way) at the hospital in Chapter 5?
(a) 1 hour.
(b) 4 hours.
(c) 5 hours.
(d) 2 hours.

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 Mrs. Tsosie say her son Garrison’s girlfriend’s name is in Chapter 10?

3. Who is at Leaphorn’s house looking at his computer and files when Bernie arrives there to check for Louisa again in Chapter 4?

4. 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?

5. Who was the suspect in the case from Leaphorn’s investigative files that involved insurance fraud on a rug from the Long Walk in Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is an example of foreshadowing that takes place in Chapter 6? What does it foretell?

2. What does Agent Cordova relate when he calls Bernie in Chapter 9? How does Chee respond?

3. What is Jackson Benally’s final alibi that he gives during his interrogation in Chapter 8?

4. To what different locations does Officer Chee go in order to track down Garrison Tsosie in Chapter 10?

5. What information does Bernie learn from the office manager at the police station in Chapter 7?

6. Why does Bernie go to Leaphorn’s home in Chapter 4? Who does she discover there?

7. Why does Captain Largo tell Bernie to take a few days off work in Chapter 2?

8. What reference to the novel’s title appears in Chapter 4? How is “Spider Woman” described?

9. Why does Chee stop at Earl’s Restaurant in Chapter 10? What does Chee do there?

10. What information about Leaphorn does Bernie relate to the FBI agent that arrives on the crime scene in Chapter 1?

(see the answer keys)

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