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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. To where is the client trailed?
(a) The embassy.
(b) The Metro.
(c) The Washington Monument.
(d) The Smithsonian.

2. Whose body was discovered under some bushes?
(a) Fleck.
(b) Yoakum.
(c) No one.
(d) Highhawk.

3. How long has it been since Elogio Santillanes y Jimenez is murdered when Fleck reads about him?
(a) 10 days.
(b) 31 days.
(c) 42 days.
(d) 29 days.

4. Where does Highhawk take Chee?
(a) To the Vietnam memorial.
(b) To the White House.
(c) To his home.
(d) To the Natural History Museum.

5. Who is coming to visit the Smithsonian?
(a) The President of Ecuador.
(b) General Jose Juarez.
(c) The President of Mexico.
(d) General Ramon Huerta Cardona.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Leaphorn call the interrogators' bluff?

2. What does the Amtrak conductor find when he looks in the roomette?

3. What is under Highhawk's body?

4. Who is Alice Yoakum?

5. What does Highhawk invite Chee to admire?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens while Highhawk and Chee are sitting in Highhawk's office and what does Chee do?

2. With whom does Chee have breakfast and what amazes Chee?

3. Whose body is found in some bushes and what is the cause of death?

4. What do the prosecutors offer Highhawk and what is his response?

5. What does Leaphorn learn when he calls his office?

6. What does the man who was the conductor on the Amtrak train which stopped in the desert in New Mexico tell Joe Leaphorn?

7. How does Fleck's childhood lesson serve him while he is in prison and as a hired killer?

8. What is Fleck's association with Eddy Elkins and why does Fleck think of him in this chapter?

9. With whom do Chee and Leaphorn meet and what does Chee tell the person?

10. What is the possible history of the Inca mask of the god Viracocha?

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