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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. Why is Louisa Berbonette going to the canyon floor?
(a) She is meeting Joe there to by one of his horses.
(b) To capture the oral traditions the older Havasupai living there.
(c) She is going to scale a cliff that starts at the canyon floor.
(d) She wants to study the rock layers that make up the canyon wall.

2. Who is going to go together to pick up Billy?
(a) Joe, Chee and Jim.
(b) Chee, Jim and Bernie.
(c) Bernie, Joe and Chee.
(d) Bernie and Chee.

3. Who is Hal Simmons?
(a) An attorney for Billy Tuve.
(b) An FBI agent.
(c) Joe Leaphorn's contact in Santa Fe.
(d) Joanna Craig's attorney.

4. As Bernadette Manuelito sweetly remembers things about Jim Chee, what happens?
(a) Her doubts about her upcoming marriage to him dissipates.
(b) She remembers why she is there and starts crying.
(c) She wonders how he is so sweet with so many mean relatives.
(d) She wonders how he could have earned a silver star in the army.

5. What does Chandler pull out of a shaving cream container?
(a) Two bullets.
(b) A walkie talkie.
(c) A razor.
(d) A .22 pistol.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are flyers offering?

2. Who shoots Sherman?

3. What comparison is made in this first chapter?

4. How does Billy become mentally challenged?

5. What does Plymale want Chandler to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What allusion to the allegory of Cat story is contained in Chapter 13?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What do you think is the main purpose of this short chapter?

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

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

10. 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?

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