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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. How does Bernie reassure Joanna?
(a) She says the water is gone forever.
(b) She says she can hear Chee yelling for her.
(c) She says Chandler is gone forever and they still have Joanna's pistol.
(d) She says she can hear a police siren on a helicopter.

2. What does Chee think probably happens to Chandler?
(a) He swims his way to safety.
(b) He is swept probably to Mexico.
(c) He drowns in the first pool before the waterfall.
(d) He is killed on the first waterfall.

3. Who else does Chandler see observing him?
(a) The FBI in their own helicopter.
(b) Joe Leaphorn coming down a mule trail.
(c) Someone with binoculars.
(d) The Hopi old woman.

4. What are other significant finds that Bernie makes?
(a) Diamonds and an arm bone.
(b) An arm bone and empty briefcase.
(c) An arm bone and empty snuff cans.
(d) Diamonds and Chandler's corpse.

5. On what errand does Chandler send Joanna?
(a) To find the third person in the cave.
(b) To find something in which to collect all the diamonds.
(c) To count the diamonds.
(d) To go outside and check the weather.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the old shaman who lives on the side of the canyon claim?

2. What is Chandler planning as he spots Joanna?

3. Why does Bernie know how to use the pistol?

4. Who abandons Joanna?

5. What does Bernie leave Billy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is incongruous in Chapter 26 that conflicts with something narrated in Chapter 14?

2. Why do you think Chandler gives Joanne back the arm bone of her father?

3. What seems incongruous about Bernie avoiding looking at the shaman?

4. In Chapter 21, why do you think Chee is alarmed that none of the tracks comes back out of the canyon?

5. What do you think Joanna's decision to continue down to the canyon floor indicates?

6. How does Chandler unconsciously give away his intentions in the scene where he and Joanna discover the snuff cans?

7. Do you see any difference between Chandler and Joanna at this point; after all, she agrees to a "partnership" with him?

8. Why do you think Cowboy Dashee is part of this story since it seems he did not contribute much in previous chapters and he is now out of the story because of his ankle?

9. What seems surprising in this story at this point in the book?

10. In Chapter 16, the reader learns more about the Hopi legend of the Skeleton Man, for which the book is named; what is this legend?

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