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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Sloane Goddard arrive and when?
(a) By horse at the mesa.
(b) By car at the marina.
(c) By plane at the beach.
(d) By boat at the dock.

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

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

4. Who is the wrangler hired by Goddard?
(a) Roscoe Swire.
(b) Rudolph Spire.
(c) Randy Slyer.
(d) Rusty Squire.

5. What happens to Hurricane Deck, Beetlebum and Fiddlehead?
(a) They carefully are ridden over the top.
(b) They hurry to the water.
(c) They fall off the trail, and are killed.
(d) They go over the next morning.

6. What is soon obvious about Nora's relationship with Sloane?
(a) They will be fast friends.
(b) They will complement each other.
(c) They will ride together.
(d) They will not be friends.

7. Who saves Nora Kelly from her attacker at the old family ranch?
(a) Peter Holroyd.
(b) Her brother Skip.
(c) Dr. Blakewood.
(d) Their neighbor, Teresa Gonzalez.

8. What does Swire do to the two horses that Nora and Smithback take?
(a) He waters them.
(b) He removes their shoes.
(c) He feeds them.
(d) He grooms them.

9. How does Skip surprise Sonya?
(a) By correctly identifying a shard that is Chuska Wide Banded.
(b) By dressing for success.
(c) By asking her out.
(d) By getting everything wrong.

10. What does Ernest Goddard pass around the fire circle for everyone to rub together?
(a) Anasazi lightning stones.
(b) Anasazi fire sticks.
(c) His lucky coins.
(d) Anasazi sweet grass.

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

12. Why is that his first assignment?
(a) Because it is one of Nora's incomplete jobs.
(b) Because it is the most important.
(c) It is in such a state of confusion already that he can do no further damage.
(d) Because it is the first one that needs to be completed.

13. What does the figure in the cave chant?
(a) Nora, Nora, Nora.
(b) Burn, burn, burn.
(c) Kelly, Kelly, Kelly.
(d) Die, die, die.

14. Where water scooped out a larger hollow, what did Sloane and Nora encounter?
(a) Debris.
(b) Snakes.
(c) Quicksand.
(d) Deep water.

15. How does Nora plan to get the horses to the head of Serpentine Canyon?
(a) She wants to buy them from the Anasazi tribe.
(b) She wants to ride them in from local stables.
(c) She wants to load them on rail cars.
(d) Nora plans to float the entire expedition up the lake on a barge.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dr. Blakewood react to Nora's idea for the expedition?

2. What three things did the Detective ask of Skip?

3. What is missing from Nora's home?

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

5. What impedes the barge from making it to the beach?

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