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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Padraic Kelly disappear?
(a) In Central America.
(b) In the Andes Mountains.
(c) On a ship at sea.
(d) In the canyons of Arizona and Utah.

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

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

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

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

6. In what condition does Skip arrive for work?
(a) Overdressed.
(b) Hungover.
(c) Over confident.
(d) Over qualified.

7. What are the names of the two black on white shards Sonya takes out first?
(a) Candice and Koyla.
(b) Caplan and Cayenne.
(c) Cortez and Kayenta.
(d) Kopla and Coring.

8. What interrupts Skips work on the first day?
(a) A visit from a Santa Fe Police Detective.
(b) A visit from his friend.
(c) Dr. Goddard.
(d) A visit from Nora.

9. What does Aragon do for the first time since the fire circle?
(a) He smiles.
(b) He laughs.
(c) He cries.
(d) He hugs her.

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

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

12. Who did Nora assign to track those responsible for what happened to the horses?
(a) Swire and Sloane.
(b) Herself and Swire.
(c) Herself and Smithback who volunteers.
(d) Sloane and Aragon.

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

14. Who is Thurber?
(a) Nora's dog.
(b) Skip's best friend.
(c) Nora's girl friend.
(d) Nora's boyfriend.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is lacking other than GPS ability?

2. Why does Nora call Cal Tech?

3. What does Sloane see above them?

4. What does Skip go back to the old farmhouse for?

5. Who is the wrangler hired by Goddard?

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