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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the flooding stops, what does Chee do?
(a) Goes back to check on Cowboy.
(b) Goes to look for Bernie.
(c) Radios for help.
(d) Waits to see if Bernie comes out of the slot.

2. What does Chandler do when Joanna passes his hiding place?
(a) He calmly confronts her.
(b) He shoots her.
(c) He trips her and she falls the rest of the way down the trail.
(d) He knocks her out with a rock.

3. Where does Chee manage to get Cowboy Dashee?
(a) To the side of the trail where there is a flat area for a helicopter.
(b) A few feet futher down into the canyon to await a helicopter.
(c) To the pool beside the Salt Woman Shrine.
(d) Most of the way up the canyon to a ledge for the helicopter.

4. For whom is Chee searching?
(a) The old shaman.
(b) Bernie.
(c) Chandler.
(d) Joanna.

5. What does Joanna ask Chandler to do?
(a) Stop treating her father's arm so disrespectfully.
(b) To take the diamonds and leave her the gun.
(c) To call the helicopter which dropped him in the canyon.
(d) To look around and make sure the noise she hears is nothing.

6. Why does Bernie start exploring?
(a) She hears a sound in the brush.
(b) She hears someone whistling.
(c) She sees a man on a ledge.
(d) She becomes intrigued by the natural beauty around the area.

7. What is Cowboy Dashee trying to do?
(a) Remove one of his boots.
(b) Flag down Bernie.
(c) Catch Billy Tuve.
(d) Shoot Chandler.

8. When Chandler tells Joanna she can have the arm if he can have the diamonds, what is her reply?
(a) She does not care about the diamnods; she just wants the arm.
(b) She knew he was a double-crossing thief.
(c) She would like just a couple diamonds to pay for this trip.
(d) She wants her share of the diamonds, too.

9. Why is Bernie told she should not be there?
(a) Because there are some bad men around.
(b) Because she is white.
(c) Because she looks Navajo and this is Hopi land.
(d) Because a cougar is stalking her.

10. Where do Bernie and Joanna find refuge from the flood?
(a) It does not rain enough to flood.
(b) Up the slope further.
(c) On the ledge where the shaman slept.
(d) Outside the cave.

11. What do Chandler and Joanna think happened to the Shaman?
(a) Chandler thinks he was murdered but Joanna thinks it was just his time.
(b) Chandler thinks he killed himself and Joanna thinks he died by an accident.
(c) Chandler thinks he was murdered but Joanna thinks he had an accident.
(d) Chandler thinks he had an accident and Joanna thinks he was murdered.

12. Despite how she feels, what does Joanna decide to do?
(a) Continue on her quest alone.
(b) Look for Billy.
(c) Call for help.
(d) Return back up the trail.

13. Who knows that Billy is with Sherman?
(a) Everyone in Chee's group.
(b) Only Joanna.
(c) Only Joe Leaphorn.
(d) No one.

14. What else comes out of the cave/slot?
(a) Chandler.
(b) Joanna.
(c) The coyote's cubs.
(d) Bernie.

15. What is a bane to sheep and cattle herders throughout the American Southwest?
(a) Cat's Claw Acacias.
(b) Cacti.
(c) Dry waterholes.
(d) Rattlesnakes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Bernie and Chee are reunited?

2. About what is Chee thinking when he notices the water pouring out of the slot?

3. What does Chee think probably happens to Chandler?

4. What is the first thing Bernie sees as she looks in the cave/rain slot?

5. What is a violation of FAA law?

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