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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 is Leaphorn asked to search?
(a) A canyon near the river.
(b) The missing persons report from the reservation.
(c) The tribal records.
(d) The desert for tracks.

2. What is odd about the dead body with which Leaphorn is concerned?
(a) That it is not decaying.
(b) That the teeth were pulled out very violently.
(c) That it shows no signs of fear.
(d) That it is laid out so neatly.

3. What may enable Highhawk to steal from the Smithsonian?
(a) His position as conservator there.
(b) His wife's position as a curator.
(c) His girlfriend's position as a conservator.
(d) His stealth abilities he gained in Vietnam.

4. At what hospital is Agnes Tsosie?
(a) None.
(b) A public health hospital.
(c) The largest hospital in Tucson.
(d) A small, private Hospital.

5. 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) The person was a passenger on an Amtrak train.
(c) He is not sure.
(d) Ther person was parachuted in.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Leaphorn go out into the snow?

2. What does Leaphorn's contact in Amtrak tell him?

3. What does Eldon Tamana plan to do?

4. Who is Catherine Morris Perry?

5. Who does not want to live on the Navajo Reservation?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Catherine Perry find on her desk and who does she blame?

3. Describe Henry Highhawk's appearance at the Night Chant ceremony.

4. Why hasn't The Client paid Fleck the rest of the money owed Fleck?

5. What is Jim Chee's response to Mary's letter?

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

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

8. Describe Agnes Tsosie's visit to the doctor.

9. What is so mysterious about the body in the desert?

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

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