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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nora ask Skip to bring into work with him?

2. What does Aragon do for the first time since the fire circle?

3. What do they discover on the cliff face above them?

4. What does Skip go back to the old farmhouse for?

5. How does Peter find the road Nora is seeking?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What distracts Goddard during his meeting with Nora?

5. What incidents cause tensions to flare between Nora and Sloane?

6. What does John Beiyoodzin call the people responsible for killing the expedition's horses?

7. Why did Nora Kelly's mother have such a low opinion of her husband, Padraic?

8. What about Sloane's arrival bothers Nora?

9. Why does Nora have a hard time with the one condition that Dr. Goddard imposes?

10. What is Zero Site Trauma and why is it important?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Throughout the story, there are examples of forces of good and evil. What are they? Categorize first the good and then the evil, by name and by deed or many deeds. How do they balance out? How does that compare with real life and the forces of good and evil? (Use your own life as a gauge.)

Essay Topic 2

The discovery of the first Kiva is significant. While it appears to be the main Kiva, what evidence supports a different conclusion? How does what they already know about the Anasazi people tie into that conclusion? What can the reader infer from this point and which observations are made and by whom that support or lean in that direction?

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 31, Aragon has spends the entire night going over the bones that they found in the crawlspace. His revelations are disturbing at the very least and uncover some conflicting observations. Why does it make Nora and Aragon nervous? After an entire night absorbed in the task of understanding the bones and their history, how does he believe they connect to the skull found in Anasazi cave they explored before finding Quivira? What is the overall significance of this find?

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