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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the dancers doing that Chee is watching?
(a) Preparing for the Night Chant Ceremony.
(b) Dancing for rain.
(c) Performing a tribal wedding dance.
(d) Practicing for a tourist show.

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

3. What sort of ceremony will Agnes' family hold?
(a) Healing ceremony to completely cure her.
(b) Waichini.
(c) Thanksgiving for her healing.
(d) Yeibichai.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From whom does Leaphorn receive a phone call?

2. What is on Perry's desk when she arrives at her office after returning to Washington, D. C.?

3. What does Leaphorn ask his friend?

4. What may enable Highhawk to steal from the Smithsonian?

5. What does Kennedy tell Leaphorn at lunch?

Short Essay Questions

1. What makes Leaphorn decide to travel to Washington, D. C. for his vacation?

2. What is Leroy Fleck's most pressing personal problem?

3. What is a possible break Leaphorn makes in the case as he revisits the scene at dusk?

4. Why does Joe Leaphorn believe harmony has been restored in terms of the corpse in the desert?

5. What does Janet say about one of McDermott's clients who is a real estate developer?

6. What does Janet Pete tell Jim Chee when she calls him at his office?

7. What shocks Catherine Perry about the box on her desk?

8. What does the letter Chee receives from Mary reveal?

9. What is Catherine Perry's thoughts about Highhawk's request?

10. Who has called Catherine Perry and what does she think he wants?

(see the answer keys)

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