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

2. When Aragon examines the items from the cliff dwelling, what two things does he discover?
(a) The skull is old and the paint is ochre.
(b) The paint is charcoal and the skull is male.
(c) The skull is old and the paint is ash.
(d) The paint is blood and the child was scalped.

3. What makes Nora stop, tie the horses up and continue on foot?
(a) The sound of someone talking.
(b) The sight of a campfire.
(c) The obstruction of brush.
(d) The smell of cedar smoke.

4. What helps Skip in his identifications?
(a) His years in school.
(b) His sister's education.
(c) His previous time spent with his father.
(d) His computer.

5. How did Nora's father sometimes mark his trail?
(a) By scratching his initials and date into the rock.
(b) By painting a marker.
(c) By piling up a cairn.
(d) By cutting an arrow into the rock.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sloane reveal to Nora about her relationship with her father?

2. Who kills the rattler that threatens them?

3. Who is the geochronologist on the expedition?

4. Where water scooped out a larger hollow, what did Sloane and Nora encounter?

5. What does Skip find out about his brakes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What about Sloane's arrival bothers Nora?

2. What kind of gear was placed atop the rim of the canyon, way above Quivira and what was its purpose?

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

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

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

6. Why does John leave Nora and Bill so suddenly?

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

8. 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?

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

10. What happens to Teresa Gozales and why?

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