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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. Why does Nora call Cal Tech?
(a) None of the above.
(b) To get a new job.
(c) To ask permission to use their new radar technology.
(d) To find an old friend.

2. Who saves Nora Kelly from her attacker at the old family ranch?
(a) Their neighbor, Teresa Gonzalez.
(b) Dr. Blakewood.
(c) Her brother Skip.
(d) Peter Holroyd.

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) Nora found a mountain lion, a star inside the moon inside the sun, and an image of Kokopelli.
(d) Two deer and a hunter.

4. Which two expedition members will join the group at Wahweap Marina?
(a) The journalist and the cook.
(b) Rusty and the journalist.
(c) Goddard's daughter and Rusty Squire
(d) The journalist and Dr. Goddard's daughter, Sloane.

5. What is the condition that Goddard attaches?
(a) That Nora takes his daughter Sloane on the expedition.
(b) That Nora must raise the money herself.
(c) That Nora has only two weeks to accomplish her search.
(d) He wants Nora to finish her work from previous expeditions first.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the geochronologist on the expedition?

2. What is Nora's middle name?

3. Who is Thurber?

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

5. What happens to Hurricane Deck, Beetlebum and Fiddlehead?

Short Essay Questions

1. Skip went back to the farmhouse and picked up Teddy Bear after Teresa's death. Why did he do this, and what happened afterwards?

2. What does Aragon tell the rest about the bones that were found in the crawlspace?

3. According to what Skip told the Detective, why hadn't Nora filed a report following her attack at the farmhouse?

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

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

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

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

8. What about Sloane's arrival bothers Nora?

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

10. When the ceremony is conducted at the ancient grave site, what becomes clear?

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