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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 Nora ask Skip to bring into work with him?
(a) His guide to potherds.
(b) Her father's Ruger.
(c) Her dog.
(d) His resume.

2. How does Nora verify their location in the canyon?
(a) By relying on maps.
(b) By GPS.
(c) By aerial reconnaissance.
(d) By memory.

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

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

5. What interrupts Skips work on the first day?
(a) A visit from a Santa Fe Police Detective.
(b) A visit from Nora.
(c) A visit from his friend.
(d) Dr. Goddard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is it so important for Nora to find the fabled city?

2. Who are his people?

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

4. Who is the paleopathologist and medical doctor on the expedition?

5. When does John leave Nora and Bill?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens to Teresa Gozales and why?

3. What does Dr. Blakewood want Nora to do when she tells him about her father's letter?

4. What items are unusual in the cliff dwelling?

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

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

7. Where is Quivira in relation to the bench that Sloane and Nora climb to?

8. What did the pictographs on the back walls depict?

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

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

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