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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How can an Amtrak train be stopped by a passenger in an emergency?
(a) By asking the conductor to do so.
(b) By using the intercom to call the engineer.
(c) It cannot be stopped.
(d) By pulling a lever.

2. What does Joe Leaphorn feel has been restored?
(a) Peace.
(b) Harmony.
(c) Motivation.
(d) Balance.

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

4. Who does Leaphorn phone?
(a) No one.
(b) An expert witness in tracks.
(c) A friend in forensics.
(d) A friend who works for the railroad.

5. Why is Fleck's mother being kicked out of the nursing home?
(a) She has no money.
(b) For being violent.
(c) She needs more extensive care.
(d) She has not been kicked out; she died.

6. Where did Madrid-Perez have a meeting scheduled?
(a) The Navajo tribal offices.
(b) The Smithsonian.
(c) The Harrington Hotel.
(d) The Nez Pez tribal offices.

7. What does the caller want of Leaphorn?
(a) Consulting on some Navajo traditoins.
(b) Help investigating a death.
(c) Help in getting the Smithsonian to cooperate about their Indian remains.
(d) A guide into the desert.

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

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

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

11. Why does Leaphorn decide to go to Washington, D. C.?
(a) To visit his aunt.
(b) To visit his brother-in-law.
(c) To meet Catherine Perry.
(d) To search the dead man's luggage.

12. Who does not want to live on the Navajo Reservation?
(a) Henry Highhawk.
(b) Mary Langdon.
(c) Agnes Tsosie.
(d) Jim Chee.

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

14. How did the Smithsonian obtain the item which the Chilean general is trying to recover?
(a) The general's great-great grandfather loaned it to a major corporation.
(b) No one is certain.
(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.

15. What is Angnes Tsosie told by a doctor?
(a) That she is well enough to go home, though she will be ill for another week or two.
(b) That she has completely recovered from her illness.
(c) That she is dying.
(d) That there is nothing wrong with her that he can find.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tamana think he may be able to ensure his planned endeavor?

2. Where does Jim Chee decide to visit?

3. Who is Janet Pete?

4. What is Leaphorn asked to search?

5. For how long has Leaphorn's wife been dead?

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