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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. Whose music has Dr. Davis left blaring in the room where she’s left Bernie and Chee tied up in Chapter 21?

2. How are Dr. Davis’s gloves described in Chapter 19?

3. When Chee calls Captain Largo in the beginning of Chapter 14, Largo informs him that the police there have heard from whose ex-wife?

4. Whom does Bernie call after she’s discovered Chee’s cell phone in the museum in Chapter 20?

5. What word from Chapter 15 refers to a small steep-sided watercourse or gulch with a nearly flat floor?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Where do Bernie and Chee spend the night camping in Chapter 14? What potential crime do they learn about at this location?

4. What do Bernie and her mother discuss during Bernie’s visit in Chapter 11?

5. How does Chee manage to find the name of EFB Appraisals’ owner and contact information in Chapter 13?

6. What clue leads Bernie to AIRC to look for Chee in Chapter 20? What does she find when she arrives?

7. What “clue” does Joe Leaphorn relate to Bernie and Chee in Chapter 18?

8. What discrepancy is discovered regarding Leaphorn’s reports in Chapter 13?

9. What takes place when Bernie goes to Santa Fe to be hypnotized in Chapter 12?

10. Why do Bernie and Chee visit Dr. Maxie Davis’s office in Chapter 13? What do they see there?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the character of Gloria Benally in the narrative. Where is Mrs. Benally when she is first introduced? How does Mrs. Benally interact with the police officers? Why is Mrs. Benally ruled out as a suspect in the shooting?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the character of Captain Largo in the novel. What is Bernie’s relationship like with her boss? How does Largo know Leaphorn? Why does Largo choose to take Bernie off the investigation into Leaphorn’s shooting?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the character of Darleen in the novel. How much younger is Darleen than her sister Bernie? How are Darleen and Bernie similar? How are they different? Why does Darleen’s behavior in the novel create tension in Bernie’s family?

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