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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What agreement does Bernie tell her sister that they made in Chapter 11?
2. What is referred to in Chapter 13 as “the land between the sacred mountains” that Chee believes the sing ritual should be properly performed?
3. What kind of pattern is described on the vase that Ellie is holding in the photograph that Slim shows Bernie in Chapter 15?
4. Who does Bernie call after she leaves the Double X Ranch in the end of Chapter 15?
5. Chee suggests to Bernie in Chapter 14 that after the case is over they should take a trip where to stay with his relatives and hike and spend a week or two?
Short Essay Questions
1. What “clue” does Joe Leaphorn relate to Bernie and Chee in Chapter 18?
2. How does Bernie manage to track down Chee and Dr. Davis at the storage facility in Chapter 20?
3. What takes place when Bernie goes to Santa Fe to be hypnotized in Chapter 12?
4. How does Slim Jacobs describe Ellie’s involvement with the vases that were sent to Japan in Chapter 15?
5. What do Bernie and Chee view at the museum while they are at AIRC?
6. What do Bernie and Chee learn from the secretary at AIRC when they arrive in Chapter 13?
7. Why do Bernie and Chee visit Dr. Maxie Davis’s office in Chapter 13? What do they see there?
8. Where does Chee meet Agent Cordova in Chapter 16? Why does Cordova say he sent for Chee?
9. What do Bernie and her mother discuss during Bernie’s visit in Chapter 11?
10. How does Bernie manage to get into the museum to search for Chee in Chapter 20? What does she find there?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the setting of Santa Fe, New Mexico and examine the differences between Santa Fe, Window Rock, and Shiprock in the narrative. How often has Bernie been to Santa Fe? What are her perceptions of the city when she first goes there in Chapter 6? How do Bernie’s perceptions of the city change by the end of the novel?
Essay Topic 2
Describe the setting of Window Rock, Arizona and its relation to the greater Navajo Nation. How large is the city of Window Rock? How large is the Navajo Nation? How does the narrator describe the setting of Window Rock in the novel?
Essay Topic 3
Describe and analyze the character of Dr. Maxie Davis in the narrative. How is Dr. Davis connected to Joe Leaphorn, Jackson Benally, Eleanor Friedman-Bernal, and Slim Jacobs? What is Davis’s involvement in the shooting of Leaphorn? How is this revealed?
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