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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Bernard St. Germain?
(a) Leaphorn's contact in the FBI.
(b) Leaphorn's contact in the Navajo Reservation.
(c) Leaphorn's contact with the railroad.
(d) Leaphorn's contact in the CIA.

2. Who does Perry upbraid about the package?
(a) No one.
(b) Markie Bailey.
(c) The delivery boy.
(d) Herself.

3. From whom does Leaphorn receive a phone call?
(a) Jay Kennedy.
(b) Dr. Booker.
(c) Catherine Perry.
(d) Agnes Tsose.

4. Why was an Amtrak train stopped for 38 minutes on the night of the murder that Leaphorn is investigating?
(a) Mechanical failure.
(b) It was not stopped.
(c) A dead cow on the tracks.
(d) A dead horse on the tracks.

5. Who is Hilario Madreid-Pena?
(a) An investigator sent from Mexico to help in Leaphorn's investigation.
(b) Chee's contact in Washington, D. C.
(c) The dead man found in the desert.
(d) Leaphorn's contact in Washington, D. C.

6. What is Leaphorn asked to search?
(a) A canyon near the river.
(b) The tribal records.
(c) The missing persons report from the reservation.
(d) The desert for tracks.

7. What does Chee ponder after reading the letter he receives?
(a) What his uncle may have left him in his will.
(b) Why Catherine Perry wants to meet with him.
(c) What do to on his vacation.
(d) Why his girlfriend charges an expensive necklace on his card.

8. What function does Janet Pete serve at her firm?
(a) As a token Indian.
(b) Researcher assistant.
(c) Officer manager.
(d) Legal aide.

9. What is Dalman, MacArthur, White and Herzog?
(a) A construction firm.
(b) A conglomerate.
(c) A law firm.
(d) A survey firm.

10. At what hospital is Agnes Tsosie?
(a) The largest hospital in Tucson.
(b) A small, private Hospital.
(c) A public health hospital.
(d) None.

11. Over what does Leaphorn puzzle?
(a) Why a man would die without his dentures in.
(b) Why Highhawk wants to joint the Navajos.
(c) Why Jim Chee has called him several times.
(d) Why his boss is forcing him to retire.

12. How does Leaphorn figure the corpse got to its resting place with no tracks around it?
(a) The person was a passenger on an Amtrak train.
(b) The person died of a heart attack and the wind blew the track away.
(c) He is not sure.
(d) Ther person was parachuted in.

13. Who is Henry Highhawk?
(a) A congressman.
(b) A state forensics lab worker.
(c) A Conservator.
(d) A senator.

14. Who is Janet Pete?
(a) A friend of Mary Langdon.
(b) An attorney for Chee's uncle.
(c) An attorney who is defending Highhawk.
(d) A Nez Pez tribal police officer.

15. Why is Joe Leaphorn frustrated?
(a) That he is being forced to retire.
(b) That no one is too concerned about the identity of the dead body.
(c) That he is still assigned to a victimless crime unit.
(d) That he has not yet been approved for retirement.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Mary Langdon?

2. What is the condition for Fleck receiving his money owed him?

3. Where does Anges Tsosie's son-in-law place her bed?

4. What does Janet Pete tell Chee?

5. Who is Captain Largo?

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