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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Leaphorn mulling over in a more pleasurable vein?
(a) Where to go for his vacation.
(b) If he wants to follow up on a woman's flirtation when he was at the Navajo Reservation.
(c) If he wants to go out for a steak dinner that night.
(d) If his daughter has arrived for her visit yet.

2. What is the condition for Fleck receiving his money owed him?
(a) He has to perform one more small task.
(b) He has to meet with the boss.
(c) He has to wait for five months.
(d) There are no problems by the end of the month concerning the job Fleck performed.

3. Why is Joe Leaphorn frustrated?
(a) That he has not yet been approved for retirement.
(b) That he is being forced to retire.
(c) That he is still assigned to a victimless crime unit.
(d) That no one is too concerned about the identity of the dead body.

4. How did the Smithsonian obtain the item which the Chilean general is trying to recover?
(a) The general's grandfather loaned it to a major corporation.
(b) A Spanish general in the late 1800s sold it to a major corporation.
(c) No one is certain.
(d) The general's great-great grandfather loaned it to a major corporation.

5. What does the caller want of Leaphorn?
(a) A guide into the desert.
(b) Help investigating a death.
(c) Consulting on some Navajo traditoins.
(d) Help in getting the Smithsonian to cooperate about their Indian remains.

6. Where does Leaphorn go to search Madrid-Perez's luggage?
(a) Madrid-Perez's home.
(b) The Amtrak office.
(c) The FBI office.
(d) The Washington Police Department Headquarters.

7. Where does Jim Chee decide to visit?
(a) His uncle's home to pick up the pipe.
(b) The Nez Pez reservation.
(c) Washington, D. C.
(d) Wisconsin.

8. What does Leaphorn find when he goes out on the job for Kennedy?
(a) A body of a white man wearing a dark suit.
(b) That there has been three missing persons reported in the last 2 weeks.
(c) That the river is unusually high.
(d) A number of tribal records are missing.

9. Who is Janet Pete?
(a) An attorney who is defending Highhawk.
(b) An attorney for Chee's uncle.
(c) A Nez Pez tribal police officer.
(d) A friend of Mary Langdon.

10. What does Tamana want of the Smithsonian?
(a) To pay a tribe member to consult on the next Navajo exhibit.
(b) To erect a monument to the Native Americans in their front reception area.
(c) To return a fetish to his tribe.
(d) To make a public apology for the many years of stealing Native American artifacts.

11. Who is Henry Highhawk?
(a) A Conservator.
(b) A congressman.
(c) A senator.
(d) A state forensics lab worker.

12. What function does Janet Pete serve at her firm?
(a) Officer manager.
(b) Researcher assistant.
(c) Legal aide.
(d) As a token Indian.

13. Who has Janet seen repeatedly?
(a) A man in a dented Chevy.
(b) A woman who looks to be part Native American.
(c) Her ex-boyfriend.
(d) A man in a new Lexus.

14. What shocks Perry when she opens the package on her desk?
(a) There is just dirt in the box.
(b) Her grandparents' bones are in the box.
(c) A rare Native American artifact that has been missing for many years is in the box.
(d) The box is full of teeth.

15. What may enable Highhawk to steal from the Smithsonian?
(a) His girlfriend's position as a conservator.
(b) His wife's position as a curator.
(c) His position as conservator there.
(d) His stealth abilities he gained in Vietnam.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leaphorn do at dusk?

2. Why does Leaphorn go out into the snow?

3. Why is Fleck's mother being kicked out of the nursing home?

4. Over what does Leaphorn puzzle?

5. What does Leaphorn ask his friend?

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