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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Peter concerned can cause brain damage?
(a) Too much desert sun.
(b) Mesquite flowers.
(c) Datura flowers.
(d) Mushrooms.

2. Which two expedition members will join the group at Wahweap Marina?
(a) The journalist and Dr. Goddard's daughter, Sloane.
(b) The journalist and the cook.
(c) Goddard's daughter and Rusty Squire
(d) Rusty and the journalist.

3. What is the cave dwelling called?
(a) Paul's Place.
(b) Pete's Ruin.
(c) Greg's cave.
(d) George's hollow.

4. Why is Nora congratulated by the other members?
(a) She finds her father's initials and a date scratched into the rock.
(b) No human lives were lost.
(c) All of the above.
(d) They are alive and over the backbone.

5. When does John leave Nora and Bill?
(a) When she tells him her father was never found.
(b) When his grandmother arrives.
(c) When the sun rises.
(d) After breakfast the next morning.

6. Who greets Skip when he arrives late?
(a) Peter Holroyd.
(b) Dr. Goddard.
(c) Dr. Blakewood.
(d) Sonya Rowling.

7. What happened to some of the horses?
(a) The horses were stolen.
(b) The horses were gutted.
(c) The horses were branded.
(d) The horses were stampeded.

8. What does Beiyoodzin tell them about the valley of Chilbah?
(a) Their medicine man collects plants there and gets knowledge from the witches.
(b) His people refuse to go there and the city was once a place of witchcraft.
(c) His people are always exploring there and looking for witches.
(d) None of the above.

9. What significant plants were found in the area and brought to everyone's attention by Holroyd?
(a) Poppies, daisies and delphiniums.
(b) Daffodils, tulips and gardenias.
(c) Datura, Narcissus and Petunias.
(d) Datura, psilocybin, and mescal cactus.

10. How does Nora verify their location in the canyon?
(a) By memory.
(b) By aerial reconnaissance.
(c) By relying on maps.
(d) By GPS.

11. What happens to Teresa Gonzales?
(a) She is attacked searching the Kelly farmhouse.
(b) She gets married.
(c) She is kidnapped.
(d) She is attacked in her living room.

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

13. How many rooms does Nora estimate are in the city of Quivira?
(a) Four hundred exactly.
(b) Two hundred at most.
(c) Fifty at best.
(d) Six hundred at least.

14. Who kills the rattler that threatens them?
(a) Jon Byzoodan
(b) John Beiyoodzin
(c) Joe Buyzeedin
(d) Jack Brezden

15. How do the Asaszi's destroy their roads so they can't be found?
(a) They fall trees.
(b) All of the above.
(c) They use brush.
(d) They flood them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Peter agree to do for Nora?

2. What does Nora begin her meeting by telling Goddard?

3. Who is the geochronologist on the expedition?

4. What was significant about the skulls Nora and Sloane found in the Kiva?

5. What makes Nora stop, tie the horses up and continue on foot?

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