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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 saves Jim from a crazy woman who believed him to be a skinwalker?
(a) A dream.
(b) His stray cat.
(c) A coyote howl.
(d) His pan trap that she tripped and made a racket.

2. Who is Plymale?
(a) A person who manages a charity to which John Clarke left his fortune.
(b) An actor friend of John Clarke's.
(c) Hal Simmons's partner.
(d) An FBI code name for the diamond case.

3. Why do the Zunis have their rain dance ceremony before their rodeo?
(a) So it will keep the dust down in the arena when it rains.
(b) So that it will rain and cool off the participants.
(c) Having it before rodeo kept the cowboys from getting hurt.
(d) Because there is a time lag between the dance and when the rain comes.

4. Where is Billy?
(a) He left New Mexico for Arizona.
(b) He is with Joanna.
(c) He left with a stranger earlier that morning.
(d) He escapes from jail.

5. How does John Clarke die?
(a) In a diving accident.
(b) In a hot air balloon fire.
(c) In a plane crash.
(d) Suicide.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Bernadette Manuelito?

2. Who is Hal Simmons?

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

4. What has Louisa been doing on the canyon floor?

5. What is possibly foreshadowed at the end of this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. Do you think Louisa's condemnation of the modern pollution of ancient myths is totally logical?

2. How does Sam Pinto illustrate Joe's theory by enumerating a theoretical series of events?

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

4. How does Hillerman use the story of the cat in Chapter 6 for more than one purpose?

5. What does Joanna say that gains Billy Tuve's attention and why?

6. How do the two characters introduced in Chapter 3 contrast with each other?

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

8. How is a Caucasian woman from New York related to a case that takes place on Navajo lands in New Mexico?

9. Why do you think Hillerman introduces a character, Louisa Berbonette, in Chapter 5, who plays no part in the rest of the story?

10. Why do you think Fred Sherman, an ex-cop, is introduced as another "bad" guy?

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