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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 is Black beginning to feel ill?
(a) The damp weather is affecting him.
(b) He has the flu.
(c) The effects of corpse powder.
(d) He has a virus.

2. What question does Black ask Sloane that she refuses to answer?
(a) Do you still want me?
(b) Are you angry with me?
(c) Are you interested in Aragon?
(d) Are you going to leave with the group?

3. What does Bonarotti smell?
(a) The sickly sweet scent of flowers.
(b) The waters from the flood.
(c) The new falling rain.
(d) The wood smoke from the fire.

4. Why had the Anasazi built the tower?
(a) To hide in.
(b) For defense.
(c) To hold grain.
(d) To contain valuables.

5. What does the helicopter unload?
(a) Pontoon boats and horse trailers.
(b) Hovercrafts.
(c) Motorcycles.
(d) Militia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sloane wonder while she is waiting to ambush Nora?

2. What does Nora notice about Sloane when she runs into her coming down the ladder from the city?

3. Where did they wait out the flood waters?

4. What is the last thing Black realizes?

5. What was there no hint of from the inside of Chilbah valley?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the flash flood announce itself?

3. What two things do the skinwalkers do when they go into Chilbah valley in Chapter 36?

4. How does Sloane test Nora's authority yet again?

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

6. Why is Swire angry when Nora and Bill return to Quivira?

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

8. How do Smithback and Nora escape?

9. Sloane and Nora clash yet again. Why this time, and what is the outcome?

10. What had Sloane's father surmised regarding the few small shards of black on yellow micaceous pottery he had been able to study?

(see the answer keys)

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