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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the figure from the old Navajo stories that enslaved the Pueblo people by winning their possessions, wives, children, and finally the men themselves, according to the narrator in Chapter 17?

2. Who is the San Juan County deputy that Chee encounters at the murder site in Chapter 16?

3. What woman from Boston did Hosteen Klah and Franc Newcomb collaborate with in creating healing paintings?

4. Where does Bernie suggest she and Chee spend the night in Chapter 14?

5. What is the name of the jeweler that Dr. Davis says made her bracelet in Chapter 19?

Short Essay Questions

1. What “clue” does Joe Leaphorn relate to Bernie and Chee in Chapter 18?

2. What do Bernie and Darleen discuss when Darleen comes home in Chapter 11?

3. How does Agent Cordova open the FBI award ceremony meeting in Chapter 22?

4. What do Bernie and Chee learn from the secretary at AIRC when they arrive in Chapter 13?

5. What is the first clue leads to Chee’s discovery of Dr. Davis’s involvement in the crimes in Chapter 19?

6. When does Chee arrive home in Chapter 11? What does he give to Bernie when he comes home?

7. Where do Bernie and Chee spend the night camping in Chapter 14? What potential crime do they learn about at this location?

8. How does Bernie manage to track down Chee and Dr. Davis at the storage facility in Chapter 20?

9. Why does Captain Largo call Chee in the beginning of Chapter 16? Where does he tell Chee to go?

10. What does Chee learn from the hospital chaplain in Santa Fe in Chapter 18? How does Chee respond?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the protagonist of the novel, Officer Bernie Manuelito. How does Bernie differ from the other protagonists of the Hillerman series? What “heroic” qualities does Bernie exhibit in the narrative? How does Bernie’s character evolve in the story?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the narrative style of Spider Woman’s Daughter. Is the story related from a first, second, or third-person narrator? Is the narrator involved in the action? Is the narrator’s perspective omniscient or limited? What effect does each of these choices have on the reader?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Bernie and Chee’s thoughts on Louisa’s phone call in Chapter 5. Why do Bernie and Chee believe that Louisa is not responsible for the shooting of Leaphorn? What clues indicate otherwise? How does Louisa’s character evolve through the suspects’ list in the course of the story?

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