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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 kind of cigarettes does Dr. Davis smoke?
(a) Camel unfiltered cigarettes.
(b) Applejack cigarettes.
(c) Marlboro lights cigarettes.
(d) Skydancer cigarettes.

2. How are Dr. Davis’s gloves described in Chapter 19?
(a) Brown leather gloves.
(b) Black silk gloves.
(c) White silk gloves.
(d) Black cotton gloves.

3. Who is Chee’s uncle that he wishes could see the artifacts at the AIRC museum in Chapter 13?
(a) Charley Zah.
(b) Randall Elliot.
(c) Hosteen Nakai.
(d) Garrison Tsosie.

4. What agreement does Bernie tell her sister that they made in Chapter 11?
(a) For Darleen to marry Richard.
(b) For Darleen to get a job at the mill.
(c) For Darleen to attend nursing school.
(d) For Darleen to get her GED.

5. Who does Chee recall having a map of the Navajo Nation with different crimes marked with different colored pushpins in Chapter 16?
(a) Officer Morris.
(b) Officer Bigman.
(c) Officer Wheeler.
(d) Joe Leaphorn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are referred to in Chapter 14 as “the legendary Navajo shape shifters who assumed various animal forms and roamed in the darkness looking for and causing trouble”?

2. Who does Captain Largo say is going on vacation in Chapter 17, thus causing the staff at Shiprock to be short?

3. Who agrees to stay with Bernie’s mother when Bernie leaves to go with Chee to Santa Fe in Chapter 18?

4. Who is the San Juan County deputy that Chee encounters at the murder site in Chapter 16?

5. How long does it take Bernie to drive to the Double X Ranch from her house in Chapter 15?

Short Essay Questions

1. What information does Louisa relate to Chee when she sees him in the hospital in Chapter 18?

2. What danger(s) do Bernie and Chee face in the climax of the novel? How are they overcome?

3. What information does Bernie learn about Leonard Nez and Jackson Benally in Chapter 15?

4. What do Bernie and Darleen discuss when Darleen comes home in Chapter 11?

5. What do Bernie and Chee learn from the secretary at AIRC when they arrive in Chapter 13?

6. Why does Captain Largo call Chee in the beginning of Chapter 16? Where does he tell Chee to go?

7. How is Leaphorn’s condition described in Chapter 12? What request does he make of Chee?

8. What family problems does Bernie face when she visits her mother in Chapter 17?

9. What does Chee discover about the shooting victim in Chapter 16? How does this relate to the Leaphorn case?

10. How does Slim Jacobs describe Ellie’s involvement with the vases that were sent to Japan in Chapter 15?

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