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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Enrique believe may have killed Peter?
(a) Seizure.
(b) Poison.
(c) Heart failure.
(d) Pneumonia.

2. What does Nora notice about Sloane when she runs into her coming down the ladder from the city?
(a) She appears frightened.
(b) She's covered in dust.
(c) She's wearing a micaceous necklace.
(d) She looks sick.

3. What does Sloane wonder while she is waiting to ambush Nora?
(a) What the pottery is worth.
(b) Why Smithback is unconscious.
(c) What happened to Swire and Bonarotti.
(d) Where Nora is hiding.

4. What secret was Peter keeping to himself about Nora?
(a) How he resented having come along.
(b) How deeply he felt for her.
(c) How much he cared for Sloane.
(d) None of the above.

5. Swire arrives in haste to give Nora what information?
(a) Someone has mutilated Peter's corpse.
(b) Someone killed more horses.
(c) Someone took the remaining horses.
(d) He is ready to go right away.

6. What was there no hint of from the inside of Chilbah valley?
(a) The massive storm coming.
(b) The dangerous conditions coming.
(c) All of the above.
(d) The possibility of a flash flood.

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

8. How does Black justify his behavior to himself?
(a) His survival.
(b) Sloane's complicity.
(c) The clear weather report.
(d) Greed for recognition.

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

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

11. What does Skip do after finding Thurber's body?
(a) He goes to Goddard for help.
(b) He calls the police.
(c) He contacts Nora.
(d) He buries Thurber.

12. What does Nora accuse her of?
(a) Murder.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Stupidity.
(d) Theft.

13. What does the helicopter unload?
(a) Hovercrafts.
(b) Motorcycles.
(c) Militia.
(d) Pontoon boats and horse trailers.

14. After Nora runs from Sloane and the threat of her gun, what does Sloane wonder?
(a) How much time she had left.
(b) Where Nora would go.
(c) Where Swire and Bonarotti were.
(d) What she should do.

15. What does Aragon believe killed Peter?
(a) Bad water.
(b) A fungus in the soil.
(c) A virus.
(d) A poison.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the nightmare that Black had as a child?

2. What does Nora see on Smithback when she regains consciousness?

3. When Sloane finally turns back to Black, what does she realize?

4. How long after a clear weather report was given by Sloane did the flash flood hit?

5. What does Sloane do during the flood?

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