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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the marks left by the life force when it enters the body?
(a) Spots that are darker than elsewhere.
(b) Ripples on the fingers, toes, and back of the head.
(c) Moons on the finger and toe nails.
(d) Freckles in a specific pattern.

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

3. Why did the Detective want to talk to Skip?
(a) To discuss Nora's missing dog.
(b) To discuss Skip's last employer.
(c) To discuss Nora's break in.
(d) To discuss the death of Teresa in their farmhouse.

4. What is Quivira fabled to be made of?
(a) Copper.
(b) Gold.
(c) Diamonds.
(d) Silver.

5. What makes Nora stop, tie the horses up and continue on foot?
(a) The sight of a campfire.
(b) The sound of someone talking.
(c) The smell of cedar smoke.
(d) The obstruction of brush.

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

7. 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.

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

9. What do they find that doesn't appear to belong?
(a) A burial cyst with two bodies.
(b) A room full of potsherds.
(c) Carvings from another period.
(d) None of the above.

10. After finding and climbing the collapsed trail, what intact feature do they find?
(a) Evidence of a flood.
(b) The largest Great Kiva ever found.
(c) An Anasazi cave.
(d) A great wall.

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

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

13. What does Skip find out about his brakes?
(a) That someone drained them deliberately.
(b) That someone cut the lines.
(c) That the mechanic failed to do his job.
(d) That the brake fluid leaked out under the car.

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

15. How do the team members get to the beach with the horses?
(a) They clear the debris.
(b) They swim.
(c) They turn back.
(d) They are dropped by helicopter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Kokopelli?

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

3. Who greets Skip when he arrives late?

4. What is the first task Skip is given?

5. How many towers were there?

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