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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is missing from Nora's home?
(a) Her television and her laptop.
(b) Her jar of mad money.
(c) All of her electronics.
(d) Her dog and her hairbrush.

2. What does Sloane find at the campsite?
(a) An arrowhead.
(b) A pictograph.
(c) A map.
(d) A fire pit.

3. Where does Peter Holroyd meet Nora for the first time?
(a) Pizza parlor.
(b) The Institute.
(c) Cal Tech.
(d) Nora's home.

4. What three things did the Detective ask of Skip?
(a) To find Nora; get a lawyer and accompany him to the farmhouse.
(b) To write an inventory, list missing items and estimate the costs.
(c) To keep Teresa's death to himself; to stay away from the farmhouse; and to stay where they could find him.
(d) To go to the farmhouse, take inventory, and clean up.

5. What is soon obvious about Nora's relationship with Sloane?
(a) They will ride together.
(b) They will not be friends.
(c) They will be fast friends.
(d) They will complement each other.

6. What significant plants were found in the area and brought to everyone's attention by Holroyd?
(a) Poppies, daisies and delphiniums.
(b) Datura, Narcissus and Petunias.
(c) Datura, psilocybin, and mescal cactus.
(d) Daffodils, tulips and gardenias.

7. What does Sloane reveal to Nora about her relationship with her father?
(a) None of the above.
(b) That he abused her.
(c) That he never said he loved her.
(d) That he cheated on her mother.

8. Who is the paleopathologist and medical doctor on the expedition?
(a) Enrique Aragon
(b) Peter Holroyd
(c) Dr. Blakewood
(d) Aaron Black

9. What signs would convince Nora they were still on the Anasazi road?
(a) Road signs.
(b) Symbols.
(c) Traces of charcoal.
(d) Carvings.

10. Why is Nora congratulated by the other members?
(a) No human lives were lost.
(b) They are alive and over the backbone.
(c) She finds her father's initials and a date scratched into the rock.
(d) All of the above.

11. When Nora and Sloane emerge from the canyon, what are they searching for?
(a) The way back.
(b) The hand and toe trail to Quivira.
(c) Nora's father.
(d) The way out.

12. What does Peter want in return?
(a) To take Nora out for dinner.
(b) To go with Nora on the expedition.
(c) To see Nora's potherds.
(d) To tour the Institute.

13. Where does Nora Kelly work?
(a) Cal Tech.
(b) The Santa Fe Achaeological Institute.
(c) Jet Propulsion Lab.
(d) Museum of Natural History.

14. What do they find in the cave?
(a) An explorer.
(b) A skull.
(c) A pictogram.
(d) A map.

15. What is the cave dwelling called?
(a) Greg's cave.
(b) George's hollow.
(c) Paul's Place.
(d) Pete's Ruin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the names of the two black on white shards Sonya takes out first?

2. What do they discover on the cliff face above them?

3. What does Sloane see above them?

4. What does Peter agree to do for Nora?

5. How do the team members get to the beach with the horses?

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