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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is high quality but worn?
(a) An ancient Navajo woven blanket.
(b) A modern Navajo blanket made on factory looms.
(c) The corpse's clothing.
(d) The Navajo jewelry Leaphorn finds.

2. What is Chee scheduled to do beginning Tuesday?
(a) Take a leave of absence to go back to school.
(b) Train the newest recruits.
(c) Take a vacation.
(d) Change to the undercover division.

3. How did the Smithsonian obtain the item which the Chilean general is trying to recover?
(a) No one is certain.
(b) The general's great-great grandfather loaned it to a major corporation.
(c) The general's grandfather loaned it to a major corporation.
(d) A Spanish general in the late 1800s sold it to a major corporation.

4. What does Leaphorn ask his friend?
(a) To lend him his deer rifle.
(b) To check to see if a train made an unauthorized stop near where the body is found.
(c) To give him a schedule of all the train routes and times.
(d) To lend him his bear rifle.

5. What is Leaphorn mulling over in a more pleasurable vein?
(a) Where to go for his vacation.
(b) If he wants to go out for a steak dinner that night.
(c) If his daughter has arrived for her visit yet.
(d) If he wants to follow up on a woman's flirtation when he was at the Navajo Reservation.

6. What does Fleck think is one thing about the Client's identity?
(a) He is Russian.
(b) He is Hispanic.
(c) He is Chinese.
(d) He is Arab.

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

8. Who accompanies Chee to make the arrest?
(a) No one.
(b) Cowboy Dashee.
(c) Captain Largo.
(d) Joe Leaphorn.

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

10. What passes Leaphorn as he stands in the dark?
(a) A deer.
(b) An Amtrak train.
(c) An 18 wheeler.
(d) A bear.

11. To whom does Leaphorn show the photos of the dead man?
(a) Agnes Tsosie.
(b) Henry Highhawk.
(c) Catherine Perry.
(d) Officer Chee.

12. Who is Jim Chee?
(a) Joe Leaphorn's nephew.
(b) Agnes Tsosie's grandson.
(c) An officer withthe Navajo Tribal Police.
(d) The dead body.

13. What does Leaphorn's contact in Amtrak tell him?
(a) That wild mustangs are frequently grazing near the tracks.
(b) How to trace the dead man's luggage.
(c) That a passenger could not have forced an emergency stop without consulting an employee.
(d) That dead cows are frequently found on the tracks.

14. Where does Leaphorn go to search Madrid-Perez's luggage?
(a) The Amtrak office.
(b) The FBI office.
(c) The Washington Police Department Headquarters.
(d) Madrid-Perez's home.

15. What is the opposition to what one of McDermott's clients want to do?
(a) There is little opposition.
(b) Younger tribal members are not interested in a technical college.
(c) The tribal counsel has voted down having a toxic waste dump on their lands.
(d) Older tribal members do not want to sell their land.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who picks Jim Chee up at the airport?

2. What does Janet Pete tell Chee?

3. Why is Fleck's mother being kicked out of the nursing home?

4. About what does Perry believe the Chilean embassy is calling?

5. What is the setting for Chapter Two?

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