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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. For how long has Leaphorn's wife been dead?
(a) 4 years.
(b) 2 months.
(c) 6 weeks.
(d) About a year.

2. Who picks Jim Chee up at the airport?
(a) He takes a taxi.
(b) Agent Kennedy.
(c) He takes the train.
(d) Janet Pete.

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

4. Who is Captain Largo?
(a) Highhawk's good friend.
(b) Chee's boss.
(c) Chee's brother-in-law.
(d) Leaphorn's boss.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of ceremony will Agnes' family hold?

2. What is Leaphorn mulling over in a more pleasurable vein?

3. Who is Janet's firm's expert on the Southwest?

4. What does one of McDermott's clients want to do?

5. Who is Chee going to arrest?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what Joe Leaphorn finds at the crime scene Kennedy asks him to investigate.

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

3. Who does Leaphorn wish he could talk over the case with and why can't he?

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

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

6. What does Janet Pete tell Jim Chee about a man in a Chevy?

7. What has Henry Highhawk asked the Smithsonian to do?

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

9. What frustrates Leaphorn about the dead body in the desert, and also what about the corpse puzzles Leaphorn.

10. For whom does Janet Chee work and what is her relationship to her immediate supervisor?

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