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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 do after making sure that Bill is okay?
(a) Begins to repack the camp.
(b) Goes to sleep beside Bill.
(c) Goes up to Quivira to see what is going on.
(d) Looks for Swire.

2. Swire arrives in haste to give Nora what information?
(a) Someone killed more horses.
(b) Someone has mutilated Peter's corpse.
(c) He is ready to go right away.
(d) Someone took the remaining horses.

3. What is Nora's first indication of a flash flood?
(a) Sound of water.
(b) Thunder.
(c) An increasing breeze.
(d) Sight of water.

4. Why did the expedition have to hurry out of the slot canyon?
(a) All of the above.
(b) To keep the group alive.
(c) To avoid the skinwalkers.
(d) To avoid being trapped by rising water.

5. What does Nora notice about Sloane when she runs into her coming down the ladder from the city?
(a) She's covered in dust.
(b) She's wearing a micaceous necklace.
(c) She looks sick.
(d) She appears frightened.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nora see on Smithback when she regains consciousness?

2. What does Beiyoodzin hope to do?

3. What does Nora want Black to do?

4. What phrase repeats itself over and over in Black's mind?

5. Who is charged with moving Holroyd's body?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the designs on the black on yellow micaceous pottery reveal?

2. What happens to Roscoe after the rest of the group heads for the Kiva opening?

3. After her argument with Nora, what does Sloane do?

4. Bonarotti sits outside after breaking through the seals to the Sun Kiva to have a cigarette and has trouble remembering what?

5. What does Black think of Sloane's behavior as the flood waters rage?

6. What does Sloane conceal from Nora and how does Black react?

7. What discovery does Black make, and how is it discovered?

8. Who does Skip go to for help and why?

9. How does the flash flood announce itself?

10. What does John do after he saves Nora and Bill?

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