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

2. What does Janet Pete tell Chee?
(a) That the Nez Pez pow wow has been rescheduled.
(b) That Chee's uncle left Chee his pipe.
(c) That Mary Langdon has been arrested.
(d) That Highhawk and Gomez are planning a serious crime.

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

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

5. Who has Janet seen repeatedly?
(a) A man in a new Lexus.
(b) A man in a dented Chevy.
(c) Her ex-boyfriend.
(d) A woman who looks to be part Native American.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was an Amtrak train stopped for 38 minutes on the night of the murder that Leaphorn is investigating?

2. How does Leaphorn figure the corpse got to its resting place with no tracks around it?

3. What does the note in the box reveal?

4. What is in the letter that Chee opens in chapter 7?

5. How can an Amtrak train be stopped by a passenger in an emergency?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is one source of cash for Fleck to help his mother and who does he contact about it?

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

3. What ceremony is Jim Chee observing and why is he there?

4. What does Leaphorn find when he searches the luggage of Hilario Madrid- Perez for clues?

5. About what does Jay Kennedy call Joe Leaphorn?

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

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

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

9. How do the members of the tribal council feel about the proposed bypass? How does Tamana think he can get elected to the council?

10. Who picks up Chee at the airport and what does he observe about the men?

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