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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is Nora's middle name?
(a) Karen.
(b) Marie.
(c) Waterford.
(d) Susanne.

4. What does Sloane see above them?
(a) A village.
(b) A cliff dwelling.
(c) An airplane.
(d) An eagle.

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

6. What ran through the clouds in the mural on the walls of the Great Kiva?
(a) A rainbow God.
(b) A bear.
(c) A thunderbird.
(d) A lioness.

7. What about Sloane threatens Nora?
(a) Her confidence.
(b) Her money.
(c) Her arrival.
(d) Her father.

8. Who is the paleopathologist and medical doctor on the expedition?
(a) Enrique Aragon
(b) Dr. Blakewood
(c) Aaron Black
(d) Peter Holroyd

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

10. What does Sloane tell Nora the next morning?
(a) That she wants to quit.
(b) That she wants to return to the group.
(c) That she is bored.
(d) That Quivira isn't there.

11. What were the petroglyphs that Nora found on the cliff face?
(a) A herd of deer and a buffalo.
(b) A group of hunters following a mammoth.
(c) Two deer and a hunter.
(d) Nora found a mountain lion, a star inside the moon inside the sun, and an image of Kokopelli.

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

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

14. What does Peter want in return?
(a) To see Nora's potherds.
(b) To tour the Institute.
(c) To go with Nora on the expedition.
(d) To take Nora out for dinner.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aragon do for the first time since the fire circle?

2. What does Skip find out about his brakes?

3. Who does Sloane reveal she would choose for herself?

4. What does Peter agree to do for Nora?

5. What is Quivira fabled to be made of?

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