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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Beiyoodzin tell them about the valley of Chilbah?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Their medicine man collects plants there and gets knowledge from the witches.
(c) His people refuse to go there and the city was once a place of witchcraft.
(d) His people are always exploring there and looking for witches.

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

5. How does Sloane Goddard arrive and when?
(a) By horse at the mesa.
(b) By boat at the dock.
(c) By car at the marina.
(d) By plane at the beach.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two expedition members will join the group at Wahweap Marina?

2. Why is that his first assignment?

3. What are the names of the two black on white shards Sonya takes out first?

4. What do they find that doesn't appear to belong?

5. What impedes the barge from making it to the beach?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nora want to fund the expedition to follow in her father's footsteps to Quivira?

2. What items are unusual in the cliff dwelling?

3. How does John tell them that a person becomes a witch?

4. Why does Nora have a hard time with the one condition that Dr. Goddard imposes?

5. What two incidents in Chapters 1 through 8 suggest to the reader some kind of witchcraft or demonic forces are at work behind the scenes?

6. What happens to Teresa Gozales and why?

7. Why does Nora believe Smithback almost ruined everything, and as such, still harbor some resentment towards him?

8. What circumstances surrounding the GPS are a problem and why?

9. Why was the ridge Nora was seeking called the Devil's Backbone?

10. Who is still missing at the start of the expedition and what decision is Nora faced with?

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