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

2. What is the name of the “favorite meeting place for cops” that Joe and the other policemen are eating at in Chapter 1?
(a) The Santa Fe Club.
(b) The Albuquerque Inn.
(c) The Cuba Inn.
(d) The Navaho Inn.

3. What name has the office manager at the Shiprock station found for the “AL” listing given to her by Bernie in Chapter 7?
(a) Aaron Lawrence.
(b) Andrew Lance.
(c) Austin Lee.
(d) Angela Lewis.

4. To whom is the brown envelope addressed at AIRC in Chapter 7?
(a) Dr. Maxie Davis.
(b) Rocko Delbert.
(c) Dr. John Collingsworth.
(d) Eleanor Friedman-Bernal.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 4 is the Navajo word referring to traditional healers and doctors?

2. What is the name of the hospital that Bernie goes to in order to visit Leaphorn in Chapter 6?

3. Who is the receptionist at AIRC that shows Bernie through the museum in Chapter 7?

4. How many times before does the narrator say Bernie had been to Santa Fe in Chapter 6?

5. Where does Bernie’s mother’s sister live that she describes talking to in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the last action on the case that Largo asks of Bernie in Chapter 2?

2. What does Bernie find when she arrives at Joe Leaphorn’s home in Chapter 2?

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

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

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

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

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

8. Where is Chee going in the beginning of Chapter 6? Why? What does he remark about their leads before he leaves?

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

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

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