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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 23-29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nora find when she leaves the family farm?
(a) A relic.
(b) A letter her father wrote.
(c) A group of maps.
(d) A photograph of her mother.

2. Who else does Nora insist accompany the expedition?
(a) The Anasazi chieftain.
(b) Her brother, Skip.
(c) Her own handpicked crew.
(d) JPL technician Peter Holroyd.

3. How did Nora's father sometimes mark his trail?
(a) By painting a marker.
(b) By scratching his initials and date into the rock.
(c) By cutting an arrow into the rock.
(d) By piling up a cairn.

4. How does Nora verify their location in the canyon?
(a) By memory.
(b) By aerial reconnaissance.
(c) By relying on maps.
(d) By GPS.

5. What does Peter agree to do for Nora?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Put in a good word/reference for employment at Cal Tech.
(c) Intercede with Dr. Blakewood on her behalf.
(d) Use the computer at Cal Tech to help her find the road her father describes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What helps Skip in his identifications?

2. What happens to Hurricane Deck, Beetlebum and Fiddlehead?

3. Where did the lightning stones come from?

4. Who is Thurber?

5. What happens to Teresa Gonzales?

(see the answer key)

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