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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. How large is the Burnt Water Quadrangle that Chee is searching?
(a) 96 square miles.
(b) 10 square miles.
(c) 64 square miles.
(d) 32 square miles.

2. What is a yataalii?
(a) A leader.
(b) A detective.
(c) A healer.
(d) A medicine man.

3. After Chee leaves Lomatewa and types his report, he goes back to his trailer. Where is Chee planning to go the next day?
(a) Second Mesa.
(b) Black Mesa.
(c) Shipaulovi.
(d) Two Gray Hills.

4. How far above the ground does the pilot fly his Cessna plane?
(a) 300 feet.
(b) 100 feet.
(c) 200 feet.
(d) 500 feet.

5. When Chee finds the missing vehicle, it has already been searched. Who does Chee believe already searched the vehicle?
(a) The CIA.
(b) The Hopi.
(c) The FBI.
(d) The DEA.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chee, what is a belacani?

2. When Lomatewa discovers the Navajo body, how long has the blessing of rain been withdrawn from the land?

3. According to what the woman who emerges from the car has been told, who saw the plane crash?

4. According to the conversation at the Burnt Water Trading Post, what did the man seen lurking around suddenly turn into?

5. As Chee ponders the mystery, who does Chee imagine telling him that there was a reason for the car to be hidden away?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to the owner of the Burnt Water Trading Post, why did he fire Joseph Musket?

2. What is the first rule of collecting gossip according to the owner of the Burnt Water Trading Post?

3. What does Johnson assume took place when Chee and Gaines were talking at the plane crash site?

4. How does Chee respond when the dead pilot's attorney tries to hire him to investigate the plane crash?

5. After making the telephone call to the hotel where Gaines was staying, why does Chee head towards the plane crash site?

6. While staring at the body Lomatewa finds off the trail, what does he notice about the body's feet?

7. As Chee studies the tracks left on the ground in the wash, what does Chee deduce about the hidden car?

8. As Chee is being questioned by Johnson about the plane crash, what professional habit does Chee decide to avoid developing?

9. After escaping detection from the man investigating Chee's truck in the arroyo, Chee is nervous about returning to his vehicle. Describe Chee's actions as he goes back to his truck.

10. When Chee suddenly awakens in the arroyo, what sound first causes him to wake?

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