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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 18, what becomes keystone for Leaphorn?
(a) Remembering songs of the Night Way.
(b) The turquoise from the fetish.
(c) The flint from the fetish.
(d) The sight of the ceremonial procession.

2. What is the age and sex of Susanne's sibling?
(a) 13-year-old sister.
(b) 11-year-old brother.
(c) 10-year-old sister.
(d) 14-year-old brother.

3. What are Koyemshi?
(a) Totems.
(b) Sacred clowns.
(c) Representatives of the Gods.
(d) Kachina.

4. What did Leaphorn experience in college with Tom Bob and Blackie Bisti?
(a) Road trip.
(b) Powwow.
(c) Visit to a shaman.
(d) Native American Church meeting.

5. What taboo did Ernesto worry he had broken?
(a) Talking about being Little Fire God to George.
(b) Teaching George the Zuni religion.
(c) Feeling and expressing anger.
(d) Stealing from Dr. Reynolds' truck.

6. In Chapter 11, how many sites is Reynolds sponsoring digs on?
(a) Nine.
(b) Eight.
(c) Seven.
(d) Five.

7. What does Leaphorn give Ted Isaacs in the last chapter?
(a) A turquoise bear.
(b) The prayer plume.
(c) The flint from the fetish.
(d) A note from Susanne.

8. At the beginning of Chapter 15, what does Leaphorn find on the saddleback slope?
(a) Tracks of George's horse.
(b) Piece of a shirt in a bush.
(c) Dead deer.
(d) Shotgun shell.

9. Dance Hall of the Dead takes place over how much time?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Eight days.
(c) Five days.
(d) Ten days.

10. In Chapter 14, Leaphorn is traveling on N.M. 53 until it turns into what road at the state line?
(a) A.Z. 53
(b) U.S. Highway 40.
(c) U.S. Highway 666.
(d) Arizona 61.

11. In Chapter 18, what hangs over the Zuni pueblo?
(a) Fear.
(b) Dust.
(c) Blue smoke from cooking.
(d) Thin layer of ice crystals.

12. Who states that deer are far-sighted?
(a) Halsey.
(b) Susanne.
(c) Leaphorn.
(d) George Bowlegs.

13. What is the normal population of Zuni village?
(a) 3,500.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 2,500.
(d) 500.

14. What is Halona?
(a) The Higher Place of the World.
(b) The Middle Place of the World.
(c) A river.
(d) A canyon.

15. In the early part of Chapter 16, what affects Leaphorn's ability to move and talk?
(a) Bleeding.
(b) Poison.
(c) Pain.
(d) A paralytic drug.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter 19, who is Leaphorn looking for?

2. In Chapter 11, what noise covers Leaphorn's arrival at the commune?

3. In Chapter 14, what is hanging on the ranch gate?

4. In Chapter 16, Leaphorn sees the same kachina mask that he saw at Jason's Fleece. Where else has he seen this image in the book?

5. What does Leaphorn find made of blue and yellow songbird feathers in Chapter 19?

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