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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nora realize as she berates her for entering the Kiva?
(a) That it is too quiet.
(b) That Sloane isn't listening.
(c) That Sloane didn't expect her to return.
(d) That no one else is there.

2. Who does Sloane shoot?
(a) No one.
(b) Smithback.
(c) A skinwalker.
(d) Nora.

3. What does John discover about the Priest's trail?
(a) It is longer and harder than he imagined.
(b) It is narrow and well used.
(c) It is hidden but quick.
(d) It is short and easy.

4. Why is Black beginning to feel ill?
(a) He has a virus.
(b) He has the flu.
(c) The damp weather is affecting him.
(d) The effects of corpse powder.

5. What is Nora's first indication of a flash flood?
(a) Thunder.
(b) Sight of water.
(c) An increasing breeze.
(d) Sound of water.

6. What does Bill do when Nora confesses her intentions?
(a) He tries to take her gun.
(b) He tries to warn Nora.
(c) He gives up.
(d) He tries to wrestle with her.

7. What does Nora want Black to do?
(a) Pack up the food for Bonarotti.
(b) Take the first load through the canyon.
(c) Help Smithback take down tents.
(d) Climb to the rim for a weather report.

8. What is the sun disk made of?
(a) Yellow stain.
(b) Paint mixed with mica and then polished.
(c) Brushed gold.
(d) Gold.

9. What is a calvarium?
(a) A clay bowl.
(b) A turquoise bowl.
(c) A gold bowl.
(d) A skull bowl.

10. What does Bonarotti smell?
(a) The wood smoke from the fire.
(b) The waters from the flood.
(c) The sickly sweet scent of flowers.
(d) The new falling rain.

11. Who is charged with moving Holroyd's body?
(a) Smithback and Aragon.
(b) Enrique and Aaron.
(c) Swire and Smithback
(d) Black and Swire.

12. Who assumes command after Nora and Bill leave the city of Quivira?
(a) Sloane Goddard
(b) Aaron Black
(c) Roscoe Swire
(d) Peter Holroyd

13. What does Nora find as she continues to flee the injured skinwalker?
(a) More black on yellow micaceous pottery.
(b) Bonarotti and his .44 Magnum.
(c) A good hiding place.
(d) A stash of corpse powder.

14. What bothers Beiyoodzin?
(a) The storm coming.
(b) That he revealed the truth about skinwalkers.
(c) That he didn't stay with Nora and Bill.
(d) That he didn't tell Nora everything.

15. How long after a clear weather report was given by Sloane did the flash flood hit?
(a) Twenty minutes.
(b) Ninety minutes.
(c) Two hours.
(d) Thirty five minutes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is John's last act of kindness to Nora?

2. What feeling does Roscoe have?

3. How does Black justify his behavior to himself?

4. What does Nora believe the skinwalkers fear?

5. What does Beiyoodzin hope to do?

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