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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 23-29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Nora's father sometimes mark his trail?
(a) By painting a marker.
(b) By piling up a cairn.
(c) By scratching his initials and date into the rock.
(d) By cutting an arrow into the rock.

2. Who else does Nora insist accompany the expedition?
(a) JPL technician Peter Holroyd.
(b) Her own handpicked crew.
(c) The Anasazi chieftain.
(d) Her brother, Skip.

3. Where did the lightning stones come from?
(a) The Anasazi river bed.
(b) The Keet Moon Kiva.
(c) The Great Sun Kiva.
(d) The Keet Seel's great Kiva.

4. What are the names of the two black on white shards Sonya takes out first?
(a) Candice and Koyla.
(b) Cortez and Kayenta.
(c) Caplan and Cayenne.
(d) Kopla and Coring.

5. What do they find in the cave?
(a) A map.
(b) A skull.
(c) An explorer.
(d) A pictogram.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Quivira fabled to be made of?

2. Who is the geochronologist on the expedition?

3. Where does Nora Kelly work?

4. What does Aragon believe in that is made light of by some of the others?

5. What is the first task Skip is given?

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