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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 Skip go back to the old farmhouse for?
(a) To clean up before Nora returns.
(b) To see where Teresa died.
(c) To deliver his condolences.
(d) To pick up Teddy Bear.

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

3. What were the petroglyphs that Nora found on the cliff face?
(a) A group of hunters following a mammoth.
(b) A herd of deer and a buffalo.
(c) Two deer and a hunter.
(d) Nora found a mountain lion, a star inside the moon inside the sun, and an image of Kokopelli.

4. Who is the geochronologist on the expedition?
(a) Aaron Black.
(b) Skip Kelly
(c) Dr. Blakewood
(d) Sloane Goddard

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the cave dwelling called?

2. What does Peter want in return?

3. What does the figure in the cave chant?

4. What does Aragon do for the first time since the fire circle?

5. What three things did the Detective ask of Skip?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is so important about the letter Nora finds from her father?

2. After Teresa's attack and murder, what had happened to her?

3. Who is still missing from the group when Nora arrives at the meeting place?

4. Why did Nora Kelly's mother have such a low opinion of her husband, Padraic?

5. What was the problem with Holroyd's map?

6. What happens to Teresa Gozales and why?

7. Who does Nora meet in Chapter 12?

8. Why does Nora discover only a single moqui step?

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

10. What tradition did Nora's father follow from other early explorers such as Frank Wetherill?

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