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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 Sloane do instead of getting medicine for Black?

2. What does Sloane confess in the tower?

3. What does Black discovery while getting ready to leave Quivira?

4. What is the last thing Black realizes?

5. Who saves Nora and Bill?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How do Nora and Bill get out of the slot canyon after regaining consciousness?

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

6. What does John Beiyoodzin realize when he makes his way up the Priest's Trail and finds the remains of the twig fire?

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

8. How does the flash flood announce itself?

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

10. Who argues with Sloane's decision to open the Sun Kiva?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Two characters begin timidly but redeem themselves. Who are they? Naming each, explain why they are reluctant heroes and then describe the acts of courage that occur. How does their lives changes as a direct result of that heroism? In each case, putting yourself in that character's shoes, could you have risen to the occasion? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

In the early chapters of the book, Nora has a distinct disdain for Bill. She mentally puts him down and is openly sarcastic and either unresponsive or her responses to him are negatively charged. This changes dramatically by the end of the book as he wins her trust and her heart. How did he lose it to begin with? What single event almost kept him single? What was the turning point? How did he finally change her mind about him? This was an issue that involved a confrontation, a revelation, and an act of selflessness. Be sure to name them all.

Essay Topic 3

Overall, this book could be said to contain several morals. What are they? What specific lessons are learned? Obstacles overcome? Closures attained? What would you say is the overall message of this novel? Why?

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