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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. 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 son had been kidnapped.
(b) Her mother had been kidnapped.
(c) Her car had been stolen.
(d) Her boyfriend had been shot.

2. 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) Jackson Benally.
(b) Officer Wheeler.
(c) Austin Lee.
(d) Leonard Nez.

3. 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) Albuquerque.
(b) Toadlena.
(c) Shiprock.
(d) Santa Fe.

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

5. What hotel does Louisa say she’s staying at during the conference in Chapter 5?
(a) Holiday Inn Express.
(b) Best Western.
(c) La Quinta Inn.
(d) The Navajo Inn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bernie surmise that “WRL” stands for in Leaphorn’s journal in Chapter 7?

2. Who is the office manager that answers when Bernie calls the Shiprock station to ask for Chee in Chapter 7?

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

4. Who is Bernie’s sister that is described in Chapter 2 as “on the road to becoming a lost young woman”?

5. Who interrogates Jackson Banally in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. What new lead does Chee tell Bernie about in Chapter 9? How is the suspect tied to Leaphorn?

2. What does Louisa say to Bernie and Chee when she calls in Chapter 5?

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

4. What possible leads to Bernie and Chee find when they examine Leaphorn’s old files in Chapter 5?

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

6. How does Dr. Collingsworth respond to the contents of the envelope that Bernie delivers to him in Chapter 7?

7. What inner conflict does Bernie face in the beginning of Chapter 7? How is it resolved?

8. What does Mrs. Benally tell Bernie about her use of the car in Chapter 3?

9. What information does Garrison Tsosie relate to Chee when he is questioned in Chapter 10?

10. What do Bernie and Chee make of the phone call from Louisa in Chapter 5?

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