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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. What makes Billy open up to Joanna?
(a) Her stories about her dreams of her father and his arm.
(b) Her kind eyes.
(c) Her buying him lunch.
(d) Her tattoo of a horse rearing.

2. What is possibly foreshadowed at the end of this chapter?
(a) That Billy will kill Chandler and Sherman.
(b) That Sherman and Chandler intend to murder Chee.
(c) Sherman and Chandler intend to steal the diamonds from Plymale.
(d) That Sherman and Chandler will attempt to murder Billy.

3. About what does Joe ask Shorty?
(a) If he has any idea where Billy Tuve got a valuable diamond.
(b) Why Shorty doesn't move to a more populated area of the res.
(c) If Shorty remembers seeing Billy Tuve the week before.
(d) The diamond he claimed on his insurance form after a robbery.

4. For what is Joanna Craig searching?
(a) Her father's body.
(b) Artifacts from a heretofore unknown native American tribe.
(c) A fossil of a rare mollusk.
(d) Missing diamonds.

5. Why can't Billy Tuve tell Cowboy and Jim what he is doing in the canyon when he gets the diamond?
(a) He cannot remember the original reason he went there.
(b) He can tell them but it has to be in the Hopi native tongue.
(c) Someone has told him they will kill his mother if he tells.
(d) He is on "Kiva" business and therefore it is secret.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who shoots Sherman?

2. What does Joe think is Joanna Craig's motivation?

3. What does Plymale want Chandler to do?

4. Where are Chee and Bernie meeting the others?

5. Why is the FBI concerned with the diamond?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the telephone conversation between Bernie and Chee say about their relationship?

2. Why do you think the discussion of Kiva and Native American rites are included in Chapter 8?

3. How are Chandler and Plymale archetypes of the type of white man that imposed their way upon Native Americans?

4. What story does Shorty tell that is the motivation for the setting moving to the floor of the Grand Canyon?

5. What besides Billy's brain injury could be a reason for his inability to give a date of his Kiva ritual?

6. In a mystery, every sentence offers clues, either about the case or about the characters that are part of the case; what does the reader learn early on about Joe Leaphorn from one sentence?

7. When you read that the bail has been suspended for Billy Tuve and why, what is your reaction?

8. At this point in the story, do you believe it when Joanna says that she seeks only her father's arm to end his pain in the afterlife and is not interested in the diamonds?

9. At the beginning of Chapter 1, what is there that would clue the reader in on the possibility that this book will be based upon a flashback to an earlier date?

10. How is the story about Cat an allegory for what Chee has encountered in his life?

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