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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do they discover on the cliff face above them?
(a) A message.
(b) Another trail.
(c) An Anasazi Planetarium.
(d) All of the above.

2. 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 Quivira isn't there.
(d) That she is bored.

3. What helps Skip in his identifications?
(a) His previous time spent with his father.
(b) His computer.
(c) His years in school.
(d) His sister's education.

4. What is the condition that Goddard attaches?
(a) That Nora has only two weeks to accomplish her search.
(b) That Nora takes his daughter Sloane on the expedition.
(c) He wants Nora to finish her work from previous expeditions first.
(d) That Nora must raise the money herself.

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

6. What was significant about the skulls Nora and Sloane found in the Kiva?
(a) They were coated in tin with slate eyes.
(b) They were covered with a turquoise inlay and had eyes of rose quartz.
(c) They were coated in gold with ruby eyes.
(d) They were coated in silver with onyx eyes.

7. What impedes the barge from making it to the beach?
(a) A log jam.
(b) A rocky shoal.
(c) A sand bar.
(d) Another barge.

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

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

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

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

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

13. What do they learn from the skull found?
(a) Someone old died there.
(b) Someone was mauled nearby.
(c) Someone was murdered there.
(d) Someone young died there.

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

15. What does he call the valley that Quivira is located in?
(a) Calbeh Valley.
(b) Chileha Valley.
(c) Chilbah Valley.
(d) Challeh Valley.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Nora Kelly work?

2. Why does Nora call Cal Tech?

3. What does Nora find when she leaves the family farm?

4. What is unusual about the cave?

5. What does the figure in the cave chant?

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